Human-driven fires have shaped the Amazonian forest for over 10,000 years

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Aug 31, 2026, 10:40 am86 ptsTrending
New research is dismantling the longstanding myth of the "pristine" Amazon. A reconstruction of 10,000 years of Amazonian pyrogeography, based on 1,361 radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dates across 303 sites—including soil charcoal and burned archaeological material—shows that fire in the rainforest is almost…

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