The Amazon rain forest, covers much of northwestern Brazil and extending into Colombia, Peru, and other South American countries. It is the world's largest tropical rain forest, famed for its biodiversity. Amazon rain forest?produces 20% of the world's oxygen, and they are decaying day by day due to climate change and deforestation.
But the ¡®lungs of the earth¡¯ have been on fire for over two weeks and it received media attention only recently.
The forest has been burning at a really fast pace and no major step has been taken by the Brazil government or the world organisations to curb the situation, which frankly is bad news for the entire world. At a time when deforestation is anyway on the rise and climate change is a reality, burning of the most important resource of oxygen for the world, is a worrisome news.
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While no major solution has been proposed, theories of what set the fires are on the rise. Some say that the local farmers did it, government blames the NGOs for purposefully setting the fire to the forest. However, new President Jair Bolsonaro¡¯s environmental policies have already been in question as he had already said that he would use the Amazon region for farming and mining, ignoring the increased deforestation.
The images of the fires are terrifying and the world is already seeing its consequences.?
On Monday, the entire city of? Sao Paulo, Brazil, turned dark under the smoke from the amazon rain forest, that was burning thousands of kilometers away. The smoke might have been carried by strong currents. Brazil¡¯s space research center INPE has detected almost 72,843 wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest this year alone; this number has increased drastically from the last year.?
Since the fires in amazon had not been receiving any major media coverage, the citizens of Sau Paulo were taken aback. This is what a person tweeted.
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One cannot even imagine the scale at which the forests are burning for the smoke to travel over 2000 km.?
Not only this, apparently it rained after the dark day. And the city witnessed black rain. People shared pictures of water that was left behind after the rain, claiming that it ¡®smelled like smoke.¡¯
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The situation is dire and it needs maximum media coverage to bring it to the attention of the world organisations, because this is not something a few individuals can bring under control.?