Author|Post time 25-8-2019 02:41 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone
The fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.
Author|Post time 25-8-2019 02:42 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
The Amazon is burning. There have been more than 74,000 fires across Brazil this year, and nearly 40,000 fires across the Amazon, according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research. That’s the fastest rate of burning since record-keeping began, in 2013. Toxic smoke from the fires is so intense that darkness now falls hours before the sun sets in So Paulo, Brazil’s financial capital and the largest city in the Western Hemisphere.
Author|Post time 25-8-2019 02:43 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
The fires have captured the planet’s attention as little else does. The Amazon is the world’s largest and most diverse tract of rainforest, with millions of species and billions of trees. It stores vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide and produces 6 percent of the planet’s oxygen.
So the Amazonian fires—which have been blazing for weeks and notoriously received less coverage than Notre Dame’s burning roof— seem like a potent symbol of humanity’s indifference to environmental disorder, including climate change.
Author|Post time 25-8-2019 02:44 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
But climate change is not the primary cause of the wildfires. Unlike, say, most California blazes—which are sparked by accident and then intensified by climate change—the Amazonian fires are not wildfires at all. These fires did not start by lightning strike or power line: They were ignited. And while they largely affect land already cleared for ranching and farming, they can and do spread into old-growth forest.
Author|Post time 25-8-2019 02:51 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
So the two scariest numbers for understanding the fires are this: There are 80 percent more fires this year than there were last summer, according to the Brazilian government. This surge in burning has accompanied a spike in deforestation in general. More than 1,330 square miles of the Amazon rainforest have been lost since January, a 39 percent increase over the same period last year, according to The New York Times.
tapi perasan tak? kat Africa sekarang ni terbakar lagi teruk berbanding di Amazon, Brazil tu.. Angola, DR Congo.. tak ada media nak cover sangat berita ni..
Africa's Forest is Buring more than the Amazon But Nobody Cares
More Fires Now Burning in Angola, DR Congo Than Amazon
Blazes burning in the Amazon have put the World on notice, but Brazil is actually 3rd in the world in wildfires over the last 48 hours, according to MODIS satellite data analyzed by Weather Source.
Weather Source has recorded 6,902 fires in Angola over the past 48 hours, compared to 3,395 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 2,127 in Brazil. Bit it seems nobody cares about the fires burning in Africa right now
Post time 1-9-2019 06:50 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
noraidil_06 replied at 1-9-2019 04:33 PM
Seriously x perasan.
Kan? Dengar cerita di Spain pun terbakar sakan.. macam ada satu helah pulak bila media2 utama tak repot berita2 macam ni... saja kot nak buka ruang teori konspirasi.
Post time 25-8-2019 02:40 PM
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, amazon tu memang tak boleh buat apa dah ke..
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