Tag: pantanal

Data from a Brazilian platform that monitors wildfires show a 150% rise in areas hit by fires in 2024

Dubbed 'Day of fire,' actions planned by large estate owners in the state of Pará destroyed forest areas

Ane Alencar, director of Science at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, talks about the smoke that took Brazil

The report shows a fast pace in the decrease of native vegetation between 1985 and 2023

The biome, also known as 'Brazilian wetlands,' is facing a lack of water and a record number of fires

Pantanal is the Brazilian biome at the top list in proportionate decrease of water-covered areas in the last 40 years

There are concerns that the biome will repeat what was seen in 2020, a record year for fires

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