New fire satellites offer hope for Amazon and other biomes, but local barriers remain

Mongabay
Jul 30, 2026, 3:44 am107 ptsTrending
Record wildfires devastated South America in 2024, raging out of control in biomes where fire is a natural part of the ecosystem, but also entering rainforests that had never burned before. Driven by expanding industrial agriculture, an El Niño episode, and droughts worsened by global climate change, the thick…

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