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Conditions Are Ripe for an Intense Fire Season in Amazonia

The 2015-16 El Niño has primed the rainforest and watershed for burning.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Yang Chen, University of California Irvine, and the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre. Caption adapted from a news release by Patrick Lynch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Published July 5, 2016
Data acquired May 2005 - May 2016

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Amazon Deforestation