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The Amazon rainforest has undergone its “most devastating” forest fire season in over two decades, despite a slowing trend in deforestation.
A new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, published in Biogeosciences, found blazes impacted 3.3 million hectares of the Amazon last year alone.
Researchers say this triggered record-breaking carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation, exposing the region’s “growing ecological fragility”.
How much damage did last
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