Conditions Are Ripe for an Intense Fire Season in Amazonia

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

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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