SUSTAINABILITY
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• OVER 80,000 FIRES THIS YEAR ALONE • ROUGHLY 7,000 SQUARE MILES LOST DIRECTLY TO FIRES. AN AREA CLOSE TO THE SIZE OF STATE OF NEW JERSEY • AS OF 2018, 3.6 MILLION HECTARES OF PRIMARY RAINFOREST, AN AREA LARGER THAN BELGIUM LOST TO DEFORESTATION. Sources: National Geographic, University of Maryland, Global Forest Watch
The Amazon: A catastrophic failure of words and action. By Darie Nani
The map above shows active fire detection's in Brazil as observed by Terra and Aqua MODIS between August 15-22, 2019. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) data from NASA EOSDIS, and data from the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED).
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