Scientists have blamed humans, not natural causes, for the blazes.
The smoke from the Amazon rainforest fires could be seen from space. : Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said the country lacks the resources needed to fight the fires raging in the Amazon—just a week after the leader said the government doesn’t need foreign aid to protect the rainforest, continuing Bolsanaro’s hard line policies and rhetoric that scientists say likely caused the fires in the first place.
Plumes of black smoke covered Brazil this week as the fires gained international media attention and sparked outrage from the
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