The Amazon forest was big, and the smoke could be seen from the orbit

On Monday morning, the sky of São Paulo, Brazil was dark. People smell a burning smell when opening a new window. The whole city, along with some other Brazilian states like Mato Grosso and Paraná flooded in smoke: the Amazon forest is on fire!

Earlier this month, Brazil's largest state, Amazonas, declared a state of emergency, when the number of forest fires occurred locally. Amazon's burnt season has just begun - usually from August until October, with the peak falling in mid-September, but people have smelled the consequences: smoke flies high and spreads so far that people have smoke can be seen from outside orbit.

Last week, NASA announced a series of satellite images showing forest fires and smoke emanating from the Amazon. Even in some places, the level of danger is only moderate compared to the fires that have been going on for 15 years, but in some places like Amazonas and Rondonia, things are worse than in the same period last year. .

Amazonas area on August 11 last.

Regional satellite image was taken on August 13.

' In particular, the state of Amazonas has witnessed fires that exceed the average throughout August, ' 'said Mark Parrington, who is working at the European Meteorological Center.

According to Parrington, fire at Amazon emits an average of 500-600 tons of carbon dioxide per year. Only in 2019, the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere reached 200 tons. According to data from the Global Forest Gas Emissions Database, as of Monday, the Amazonas region suffered 8,668 fires. This number exceeds last year, only 168 cases are missing, equal to the total number of fires that took place in 2016.

Smoke had covered São Paulo in the sky, the local air quality had decreased significantly. ' The people of the countryside began to feel the effects of smoke, because the air was inherently fresh and replaced by smoke and dust, ' said Alberto Shiguematsu, a resident of São Paulo. According to the words, During 10 years of Shiguematsu living here, there has never been a lot of smoke in the sky.

São Paulo at 3:30 pm local time.

This is São Paulo at 4 pm.

Because São Paulo is several thousand kilometers away from the place where the fire occurred, the people here do not think they will be affected by the dust and wildfire.

The humidity of Amazon is a natural shield to protect the local air from the smoke from the fire, but because the fire is too big, the drought happens constantly, it is very serious to destroy the forest, the shield is no longer effective. fruit. All of these are in a scientific report published in 2014; During the past 5 years, people have begun to see sentences from the old years come true.

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