CONSERVATION X GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE

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The graph shows, in red, the list of forest fires and, in green, the environmental preservation areas. Forests are essential to delay the greenhouse effect, as they are carbon reservoirs, slowing global warming. When there is an increase in temperature, caused by deforestation, it is common for an increase in forest fires in dry regions, such as the savannah and the cerrado, however, miners and farmers cause fires to clear areas of vegetation to gain access to the soil, which causes large fires and destruction of vegetation in regions where, in the past, it was not common. Data from NASA, the United States space agency, and the Copernicus System, of the European Union, reveal that the fires in New South Wales (Australia), in the Siberian Arctic, on the west coast of the United States and in the Brazilian Pantanal were the biggest of all time, based on 18 years of global forest fire data compiled by the organizations. Every year, scientists say that an area of about 4 million square kilometers of forest is burned by wildfire.

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Droughts in southern Amazonia and the Pantanal were the worst in the last 50 years

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Oct 3, 2021
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Updated: Oct 3, 2021

According to ONU news, released on August 17, 2021, the World Meteorological Organization, OMM, releases a report “The State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean”, which highlights fires in the Amazon; 2020 was the second warmest year in South America.

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A seca também fez baixar os níveis dos rios, reduzindo as colheitas e com isso, piorando a insegurança alimentar em várias áreas.

The OMM survey also highlights that forest losses have contributed significantly to climate change, due to carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

Between 2000 and 2016, nearly 55 million hectares of forests disappeared in Latin America, representing 91% of forest losses worldwide.

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