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The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil's vanishing rainforest

  • Written by Catesby Holmes, Global Affairs Editor, The Conversation US

Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square miles of the rainforest this year.

Don’t blame dry weather for the swift destruction of the world’s largest tropical forest, say environmentalists. These Amazonian wildfires are a human-ma...

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