NASA says fire in the Amazon is the worst of the last ten years

2019 is the worst year of fires in the Amazon The Brazilian since 2010, announced Friday NASA after a study in which he had detected a "significant increase in outbreaks of serious burns, intense and persistent". In addition, the report highlights the increase in epidemics ".along the roads principal in the Amazon of Brazil ".

According to scientists, the burning activity in the Brazilian forest varies significantly from one year to the next, but this time, something unusual happens. "While drought has played a significant role in the intensification of fires on other occasions, the timing and location of the fires detected at the beginning of the driest season of 2019 are more closely linked. to deforestation than to regional drought, "the space agency said in his blog Earth Observatory.

In this regard, they stated that, up to now, in 2019, the number of active detections of blisters is the highest compared to any year since 2010. "The State of Amazonas is aiming for a disk burning activity".

Douglas Morton, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center biosphere science laboratory manager, said NASA's statistics were consistent with data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

"The INPE also uses active focus data recorded by NASA's sensors to monitor burning activities in the Brazilian Amazon," he explained. "As a result, NASA and INPE have the same estimates of changes in recent fire activity," he added.

This statement comes shortly after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired the director of INPE, whom he accused of lying and damaging the image. for publishing disturbing data on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Map of NASA

The map published this Friday by the US agency shows in orange the focus of fires detected by satellites. White dots are cities, gray dots are savannas and tropical forests (known in Brazil as Cerrado) and forests are black areas.

With this graph, NASA has shown that it is possible to locate fires near Brazilian roads and cities.