Climate Adaptation

Amazon Rainforest Fire Season Starts With Outlook for Record Burn

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Smoke rises above the Amazon rain forest, outside an indigenous reservation in Roraima state, Brazil, in January 2019.Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg

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By Fabiana Batista

June 8, 2020 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated on

June 8, 2020 at 1:47 PM UTC

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A month from now, the skies over parts of Brazil will fill with smoke. It’s fire season in the Amazon, and the planet’s largest rain forest is heading for another record burn.