The cases of fires are now grappling around the world. Wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% in the first nine months of the year associated with a year ago, as the rainforest region undergoes its worst rash of fires in a decade, data from space research agency Inpe revealed on Thursday. Satellites in September registered 32,017 hot spots in the world’s largest rainforest, a 61% rise from the same month in 2019. In August last year, surging fires in the Amazon caught global headlines and implied objections from world leaders such as France’s Emmanuel Macron that Brazil was not doing enough to preserve the rainforest.
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On Tuesday, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden asked for a world effort to offer $20 billion to end Amazon deforestation and warned Brazil with unspecified “economic consequences” if it did not “stop tearing down the forest.” President Jair Bolsonaro thrashed Biden’s comment as a “cowardly threat” to Brazil’s autonomy and a “clear sign of contempt.” The data from Inpe show that in 2019, fires surged in August and decreased considerably the month after, but this year’s peak has been more maintained. Both August and September of 2020 have matched or surpassed last year’s single-month high.
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“We have had two months with a lot of fire. It’s already worse than last year,” said Ane Alencar, science director for Brazil’s Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM). He said, “It could get worse if the drought continues. We are at the mercy of the rain.” The Amazon is experiencing a more severe dry season than last year, which scientists attribute in part to warming in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean pulling moisture away from South America.
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