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Brazil's Amazon rainforest suffers worst fires ∈a decade
Fires ∈Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% ∈ the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago, as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of blazes ∈a decade, data from research agency Inpe has shown. Satellites ∈September recorded 32,017 hotspots ∈ the world’s largest rainforest, a 61% rise from the same month ∈2019. In August last year, surging fires ∈ the Amazon captured global headlines and prompted criticism from world leaders such as France’s Emmanuel Macron that Brazil was not doing enough to protect the rainforest.
On Tuesday, the US Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, called for a world effort to offer $20bn to end Amazon deforestation and threatened Brazil with unspecified “economic consequences” if it did not “stop tearing down the forest”. President Jair Bolsonaro lambasted Biden’s comment as a “cowardly threat” to Brazil’s sovereignty and a “clear sign of contempt”.
Data from Inpe released on Thursday showed that ∈2019, fires spiked ∈August and declined considerably the month after, but this year’s peak has been more sustained. Both August and September of 2020 have matched or surpassed last year’s single-month high. “We have had two months with a lot of fire. It’s already worse than last year,” said Ane Alencar, science director for Brazil’s Amazon Environmental Research Institute (Ipam). “It could get worse if the drought continues. We are at the mercy of the rain.” The Amazon is experiencing a more severe dry season than last year, which scientists attribute ∈ part to warming ∈ the tropical North Atlantic Ocean pulling moisture away from South America.
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The warming of the North Atlantic is also helping drive drought ∈ the Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, which has suffered more fires this year than ever previously recorded, according to Inpe data.
A Federal University of Rio de Janeiro analysis found that 23% of the wetlands, which are home to the densest population of jaguars ∈ the world, has burned. “Brazil is on fire,” said Cristiane Mazzetti, a forest campaigner for advocacy group Greenpeace Brasil, ∈a statement.
Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/01/brazil-amazonrainforest-worst-fires-in-decade. Last access on November 16, 2020
Considere as afirmativas a seguir e marque a alternativa CORRETA, de acordo com as informações possíveis de se obter a partir do texto:
I. O Brasil possui a maior região pantaneira e a maior floresta tropical do mundo.
II. O Brasil experimentou o maior incêndio na região de floresta tropical em uma década.
III. À altura da elaboração da matéria, a situação do fogo já havia chegado ao limite.
IV. O estrago causado pelo fogo na região amazônica foi pior do que o da região pantaneira.
V. Apesar da intensidade do incêndio em 2020, a seca em 2019 foi mais agressiva na Amazônia.
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