The Amazon Rainforest is on fire, plunging São Paulo, the largest city in South America, into darkness. But this isn't a new problem. Fires in the rainforest have increased over 80% in 2019 compared to the prior year. Here's what you need to know.
#YEARSproject #WarOnOurFuture
SOURCES:
[i] Economist.com. Forest fires in the Amazon blacken the sun in São Paulo. Aug 22 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[ia] WorldPopulationReview.com. Largest Cities In South America. Accessed: Aug 24 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[ii] Ibid.
[iii] LiveScience.com. Smoke from Burning Amazon Turns São Paulo Afternoon into Midnight. Aug 22 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[iv] France24.com. Amazon in flames: Record 73,000 fires in 2019. Aug 21 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[v] USNews.com. Amazon Rainforest Burning in Record Fires. Aug 21 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[vi] CNN.com. Blame humans for starting the Amazon fires, environmentalists say. Aug 22 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[vii] Ibid.
[viia] WashingtonPost.com. The Amazon is burning. Bolsonaro says his critics are setting the fires, to make him look bad. Aug 22 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[viii] GlobalForestAtlas.YALE.Edu. Cattle Ranching in the Amazon Region. Accessed: Aug 22 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[ix] Reuters.com. Amazon burning: Brazil reports record forest fires. Aug 20 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[x] WashingtonPost.com. The Amazon is burning. Bolsonaro says his critics are setting the fires, to make him look bad. Aug 22 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[xi] NYTimes.com. Under Brazil’s Far-Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall. Jul 28 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[xii] NYTimes.com. What Jair Bolsonaro’s Victory Could Mean for the Amazon, and the Planet. Oct 27 2018. [ Ссылка ]
[xiii] NYTimes.com. Brazil’s Sad Choice. Oct 21 2018. [ Ссылка ]
[xiv] WorldPopulationReview.com. Largest Cities In South America. Accessed: Aug 24 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[xv] VOX.com. Wildfires are burning around the world. The most alarming is in the Amazon rainforest. Aug 21 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[xvi] Advances.ScienceMag.org. Amazon Tipping Point. Feb 21 2018. [ Ссылка ]
[xvii] News.Mongabay.com. Ten years on, Amazon Fund receives applause, criticism, faces new tests. Dec 21 2018. [ Ссылка ]
[xviii] Statista.com. Carbon Dioxide emissions in Russia from 2000-2018 (in million metric tons of CO2). Accessed: Aug 22 2019. [ Ссылка ]
[xix] PNAS.org.Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm. Sep 27 2016. [ Ссылка ]
[xx] RainforestTrust.org. Climate Change Series P1. Accessed: Aug 22 2019.
