Staggering Number Of Fires Ravaging Amazon Rainforest | NBC Nightly News

Three weeks of raging fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are setting off alarm bells around the world, with so much smoke that it can be seen from space. Brazil’s space agency reports that there have been almost 73,000 fires throughout the country since January, an 83 percent increase over the last year.
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Staggering Number Of Fires Ravaging Amazon Rainforest | NBC Nightly News

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