Amazon fires rage in Roraima, Brazil’s northernmost state

The area of Brazil affected by fires grew 410 percent in February compared to the same month in 2023, according to data compiled by MapBiomas, a deforestation monitoring platform. In the first two months of 2024, 93 percent of the area affected by fires was in the Amazon rainforest. Most of these fires occurred in Roraima,
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