Climate conditions determine Amazon fire risk

Saturday, June 8, 2013 - 04:00 in Earth & Climate

(Phys.org) —Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has been lost through deforestation in recent years.

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