There have been massive fires this year from Australia to Brazil
Climate change plays an important role; warmer temperatures mean drier vegetation, which acts as perfect kindling for fires. Annual rains are coming later and later, while hot, dry winds have helped whip up fires.
Jair Bolsonaro, the country’s far-right leader who has been working to open up the Amazon to corporate interests, responded to the fires with a flurry of baseless finger-pointing. With no evidence, he blamed non-governmental organizations and firefighters for lighting fires andSmoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Brazil, on Sept. 10.
Many of the fires were in remote, hard to reach areas called “control zones,” where authorities are not obliged to fight fires as the cost of fighting them is predicted to be higher than the damage they cause.A fire in the Boguchansk district of the Krasnoyarsk region in Russia. Hundreds of Russian towns and cities were shrouded in heavy smoke from wildfires in Siberia and the Far East in July 2019.for not being prepared and for underfunding fire protection and firefighting efforts.
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