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Taking two steps back; drought and economic recovery have sparked a new surge of burning in the Amazon basin.(Brief Article)
From:
Newsweek
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January 8, 1996| Author:
Margolis, Mac
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Drought and economic recovery have sparked a new surge of burning in the Amazon basin
IMAGINE A GREAT PLUME OF SMOKE, BIG enough to stretch from the Rockies to Rhode Island, blotting out the sun and the moon. The Amazon, crown jewel of the worlds rain forests, is burning-again. From June to November last year, tens of thousands of fires blazed over the 2 million square miles of the Brazilian Amazon. Winds swept the pall of smoke across distant borders, shrouding the land and...
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