Amazon Fire News

Researchers have found that burning of the rainforest in southwestern Amazonia (the Brazilian, Peruvian and Bolivian Amazon) may increase the melting of tropical glaciers in the Andes, South America.

In the village of Feijo, in the West of Brazil, approaching the border with Peru, indigenous people from the tribe of Shanenawa on Sunday performed a ritual to try to find peace between humans and nature. With faces painted, dozens danced in circles as they prayed to put an end to the fires. 

The comments by presidential spokesman Rego Barros came after governors of states in the Brazilian Amazon told President Jair Bolsonaro that they needed the money to help fight the record wildfires in the world`s largest tropical rainforest.

Reuters accompanied a firefighting brigade near the state capital of Porto Velho, where there were areas larger than football fields that had been charred.

A record number of fires ravaging the Amazon has drawn international outrage because of the rainforest`s importance to the global environment and prompted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to dispatch the military to assist in firefighting.

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There are no lights in sight but the night sky glows a dusky yellow, for the Amazon, is burning. Yes, the Amazon rainforests, the biome that sprawls over 7,000,000 square kilometers of the South American basin and generates more than 20% of the world's oxygen, is on fire, and the Western media is frighteningly apathetic about it.

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