The Amazon Forest Has Been Burning For Weeks And NASA Shares Photos From Space
On Monday afternoon, the whole city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, went completely dark – as it turns out, the city was buried in smoke by the strong winds coming from the Amazon rainforest fires burning nearly 1,700 miles away. According to Reuters, Brazil’s space research center INPE has detected almost 72,843 wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest.
(This photo was taken during Amazon fires in 1989)
The research center states that their satellite data showed an 83% increase in the same period in 2018, showing that this year Amazon has suffered a record number of forest fires.
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The citizens of Sao Paulo were shocked when they witnessed a daytime blackout, one Twitter user said: “Imagine how much has to be burning to create that much smoke”.
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The blackout lasted around an hour and came from the fires burning in the states of Amazonas and Rondonia. Together with the veil of smoke the levels of CO2 spiked greatly in the surrounding areas.
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But they weren’t the only ones who noticed an increased fire activity. NASA released photos taken from space which show smoke surrounding the Amazon rainforest.
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Even though the Amazon has been relatively fire-resistant due to its natural moisture and humidity, wildfires have increased during the last couple of decades and the cause is attributed to a combination of drought and human activity.
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Experts associate this year’s increase with Jair Bolsonaro who took office as president in January and vowed to develop the Amazon region for farming and mining, ignoring the increased deforestation.
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Share on FacebookSometimes I feel like crying when I see what we're doing to our planet, and I'm kind of glad I don't have kids so they can live through what will follow...
I agree! It's so discouraging! Things like this make me feel helpless, like how is one person supposed to help make a difference?
Load More Replies...To read that their president vowed to use the amazon for farming and mining sickens and disappoints me. I live no where near the Amazon and even I know how important it is to our planet. The animals... the ecosystem.... all being destroyed.
Coming back to this post, Bolivia has already had more than 2 million hectares burnt thanks to president Evo Morales who gave away land to his people in the forest. These people want that land so they can cultivate more coca and they are the ones who keep on burning it despite de volunteers effort to fight against the fire. Evo Morales refuses to ask for international help and to declare a national emergency. Their "colonos" even asked for more land. It's heartbreaking to see all the wild fauna burnt. Heartbreaking. Impotence agains this government is the least we can say
Load More Replies...Prime example of mankind’s greed and disregard for home
Load More Replies...Hi, I'm from Bolivia, and the forests of Chiquitania in Beni are being devastated by the fire, what we need are donations to help the firefighters and animals, our president is totally inept, tyrant who did nothing and we don't have the right equipment....please send help
Lets remember about USA that doesnt want to sign the Kyoto treaty, which deals with reducing pollution in the WORLD, even though it is the most consuming and polluting nation on the planet! Bolsonaro and Trump are both jerks!
We are screwed. I hope the best healing for the planet. I am really sorry all the innocent species that we are devouring...And I hope the least suffer for all of those who actually tried to make the difference.
We are screwed only if people continue eating meat like this. Everyone really needs to think what they want their future to look like, and whether some momentary pleasures weigh more in the scale than the lives of all living beings on this planet, including their own.
Load More Replies...These are human-lit fires for large-scale land clearing. This First started decades ago, then got defunded by the Brazil government, and now it has started up again massively under the current Bolsonaro administration. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/22/americas/amazon-fires-humans-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html
FFS!! Well ya know, it's just a forest that's called the lungs of the earth that provides us the very oxygen we breathe in, no biggie. It's not important like Notre Dame to draw attention to itself when it's on fire, it's just the source of our oxygen. Our children will have to die with breathing issues, it's completely fine.
so does Siberia, but no one gives a .. https://www.voanews.com/europe/siberia-burning-russians-choke-forest-fire-smog
I'm from Brazil and 'The North remembers'. (Amazon is in the North of the country.) Currently, the president says that the *NGOs* are responsible for the fires just to make the current government look bad.
As a friendly reminder for those reading this, Brazil is not for Amateurs. During the elections the Media and a lot of people kept sharing Fake News about Bolsonaro's and his supporters like they were assaulting or killing whoever thought different than themselves; a woman even cut her own body forming a Nazi Swastikas saying it was a couple of supporters who did it, she is facing sentence for Perjury and False Statment.
Load More Replies...I read that one of Bolsonaro's claims was that he'd restore the country's economy by exploring the Amazon's potential. What are you gonna do with a booming economy on a planet that is hurting and dying? It confuses me how much the capitalists exploit the planet for money. How do you not care about the only planet that can and does sustain you. How vile do you have to be.
The Amazon Forest provides 20% of the Worlds Oxygen. Why is this not a global emergency? Every country that can should be sending their water carrying planes + firefighting volunteers.
The best thing anyone can do about this situation is to stop eating beef that was produced in Brazil, and animals that have been fed with soy that comes from Brazil. I live on the other side of the planet from Brazil, yet most of our pigs and chickens eat soy produced in there. The reason for this fires, and for the general destruction of the Amazonia (that has been going on for many decades), is animal agriculture. So I challenge you all to ask yourself, what are you ready to do about this situation. Animal agriculture is the leading cause for all the biggest environmental issues, not just this one.
It has also been burning in Bolivia because the ignorant president signed a law that allows those "agricultors" to burn them. And the worst part is that he refused to ask for international help because he is frikking campaigning for the electoral elections in October and he expends a lot of money to mantain his international image.
Fore those interested in more details: Article from Aug 26th about Bolivia: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/americas/bolivia-amazon-fires-intl/index.html
Load More Replies...I am for life sentence to anyone who is responsible for large forest fires. That would be the only way to preserve these forests. By putting fear in stupid humans. By punishment. Because telling people we NEED these forests to survive obviously isn't enough.
When all the trees have been cut, all the fish have been killed and all the buildings have been built, then people will understand, *you cannot eat paper-money*.
Who is we? This has been on the news and all over the internet for a couple days now at least.
Load More Replies...Brazil's president should be airlifted to the middle of the worst fire and dropped in.
10-20 years at most before Amazonas jungle forest is gone. This is happening in Africa as well. These people ruin their lands and are expecting us to welcome their refugees later.
The Amazon is the lungs of the earth. It goes, we aren't very far behind.
I hope everyone say a prayer fall down a heavy rain to the Amazon and kill the fire. I couldn't imagine the wild life there running to save their life and families that all they have to do were saving the earth and saving humans. And it is too sad that I am helpless.
You really think a f***ing prayer will help??
Load More Replies...Pretty sure our 'Leaders' will call this out as alarmist fake news
God forbid we hurt their election contributions
Load More Replies...it's not true to say that the Amazon is burning at "record rates" As NASA observed: "As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data." This is normal.
I will love it when after this sorrowful destruction of nature the humans will burn. They will pay for they did.
Nice that we know The Orange called someone fat but this is not as newsworthy....
Amazon is really burning, but Sao Paulo dark sky had nothing to do with it.
It's not real. Please check the information. Amazonia isn't burning for weeks... see this video: https://youtu.be/YpsbEmzQHnQ
ok people there is only a 7% increase in regular burns done by agriculture in south america wow people will jump on ANY band wagon if the internet says its true it must be right? ....wow research people .
Sometimes this is the only way nature can make itself renew, there are areas that frequently razed by fire then a few days or weeks there are strange seeds/sprouts that grows from the ashes.
What is mind blowing is that there is literally no information on this whatsoever online EXCEPT from residences nearby and those that noticed the overwhelming amount of smoke reaching their cities. It does not matter whether this was caused by nature itself or by a person, the Amazon Rainforest is burning and we sure as hell need to do something about it, fast. Discovering what the cause was can be focused on later, we need to figure out how to stop it before it gets worse. I don't know how I can do so from my own home, but if there is any way we can influence this, I'm all ears.
Sometimes I feel like crying when I see what we're doing to our planet, and I'm kind of glad I don't have kids so they can live through what will follow...
I agree! It's so discouraging! Things like this make me feel helpless, like how is one person supposed to help make a difference?
Load More Replies...To read that their president vowed to use the amazon for farming and mining sickens and disappoints me. I live no where near the Amazon and even I know how important it is to our planet. The animals... the ecosystem.... all being destroyed.
Coming back to this post, Bolivia has already had more than 2 million hectares burnt thanks to president Evo Morales who gave away land to his people in the forest. These people want that land so they can cultivate more coca and they are the ones who keep on burning it despite de volunteers effort to fight against the fire. Evo Morales refuses to ask for international help and to declare a national emergency. Their "colonos" even asked for more land. It's heartbreaking to see all the wild fauna burnt. Heartbreaking. Impotence agains this government is the least we can say
Load More Replies...Prime example of mankind’s greed and disregard for home
Load More Replies...Hi, I'm from Bolivia, and the forests of Chiquitania in Beni are being devastated by the fire, what we need are donations to help the firefighters and animals, our president is totally inept, tyrant who did nothing and we don't have the right equipment....please send help
Lets remember about USA that doesnt want to sign the Kyoto treaty, which deals with reducing pollution in the WORLD, even though it is the most consuming and polluting nation on the planet! Bolsonaro and Trump are both jerks!
We are screwed. I hope the best healing for the planet. I am really sorry all the innocent species that we are devouring...And I hope the least suffer for all of those who actually tried to make the difference.
We are screwed only if people continue eating meat like this. Everyone really needs to think what they want their future to look like, and whether some momentary pleasures weigh more in the scale than the lives of all living beings on this planet, including their own.
Load More Replies...These are human-lit fires for large-scale land clearing. This First started decades ago, then got defunded by the Brazil government, and now it has started up again massively under the current Bolsonaro administration. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/22/americas/amazon-fires-humans-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html
FFS!! Well ya know, it's just a forest that's called the lungs of the earth that provides us the very oxygen we breathe in, no biggie. It's not important like Notre Dame to draw attention to itself when it's on fire, it's just the source of our oxygen. Our children will have to die with breathing issues, it's completely fine.
so does Siberia, but no one gives a .. https://www.voanews.com/europe/siberia-burning-russians-choke-forest-fire-smog
I'm from Brazil and 'The North remembers'. (Amazon is in the North of the country.) Currently, the president says that the *NGOs* are responsible for the fires just to make the current government look bad.
As a friendly reminder for those reading this, Brazil is not for Amateurs. During the elections the Media and a lot of people kept sharing Fake News about Bolsonaro's and his supporters like they were assaulting or killing whoever thought different than themselves; a woman even cut her own body forming a Nazi Swastikas saying it was a couple of supporters who did it, she is facing sentence for Perjury and False Statment.
Load More Replies...I read that one of Bolsonaro's claims was that he'd restore the country's economy by exploring the Amazon's potential. What are you gonna do with a booming economy on a planet that is hurting and dying? It confuses me how much the capitalists exploit the planet for money. How do you not care about the only planet that can and does sustain you. How vile do you have to be.
The Amazon Forest provides 20% of the Worlds Oxygen. Why is this not a global emergency? Every country that can should be sending their water carrying planes + firefighting volunteers.
The best thing anyone can do about this situation is to stop eating beef that was produced in Brazil, and animals that have been fed with soy that comes from Brazil. I live on the other side of the planet from Brazil, yet most of our pigs and chickens eat soy produced in there. The reason for this fires, and for the general destruction of the Amazonia (that has been going on for many decades), is animal agriculture. So I challenge you all to ask yourself, what are you ready to do about this situation. Animal agriculture is the leading cause for all the biggest environmental issues, not just this one.
It has also been burning in Bolivia because the ignorant president signed a law that allows those "agricultors" to burn them. And the worst part is that he refused to ask for international help because he is frikking campaigning for the electoral elections in October and he expends a lot of money to mantain his international image.
Fore those interested in more details: Article from Aug 26th about Bolivia: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/americas/bolivia-amazon-fires-intl/index.html
Load More Replies...I am for life sentence to anyone who is responsible for large forest fires. That would be the only way to preserve these forests. By putting fear in stupid humans. By punishment. Because telling people we NEED these forests to survive obviously isn't enough.
When all the trees have been cut, all the fish have been killed and all the buildings have been built, then people will understand, *you cannot eat paper-money*.
Who is we? This has been on the news and all over the internet for a couple days now at least.
Load More Replies...Brazil's president should be airlifted to the middle of the worst fire and dropped in.
10-20 years at most before Amazonas jungle forest is gone. This is happening in Africa as well. These people ruin their lands and are expecting us to welcome their refugees later.
The Amazon is the lungs of the earth. It goes, we aren't very far behind.
I hope everyone say a prayer fall down a heavy rain to the Amazon and kill the fire. I couldn't imagine the wild life there running to save their life and families that all they have to do were saving the earth and saving humans. And it is too sad that I am helpless.
You really think a f***ing prayer will help??
Load More Replies...Pretty sure our 'Leaders' will call this out as alarmist fake news
God forbid we hurt their election contributions
Load More Replies...it's not true to say that the Amazon is burning at "record rates" As NASA observed: "As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data." This is normal.
I will love it when after this sorrowful destruction of nature the humans will burn. They will pay for they did.
Nice that we know The Orange called someone fat but this is not as newsworthy....
Amazon is really burning, but Sao Paulo dark sky had nothing to do with it.
It's not real. Please check the information. Amazonia isn't burning for weeks... see this video: https://youtu.be/YpsbEmzQHnQ
ok people there is only a 7% increase in regular burns done by agriculture in south america wow people will jump on ANY band wagon if the internet says its true it must be right? ....wow research people .
Sometimes this is the only way nature can make itself renew, there are areas that frequently razed by fire then a few days or weeks there are strange seeds/sprouts that grows from the ashes.
What is mind blowing is that there is literally no information on this whatsoever online EXCEPT from residences nearby and those that noticed the overwhelming amount of smoke reaching their cities. It does not matter whether this was caused by nature itself or by a person, the Amazon Rainforest is burning and we sure as hell need to do something about it, fast. Discovering what the cause was can be focused on later, we need to figure out how to stop it before it gets worse. I don't know how I can do so from my own home, but if there is any way we can influence this, I'm all ears.
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