"This is not just a forest that is burning... This is almost a cemetery. Because all you can see is death."@npwcnn flies over the Amazon rainforest to get an aerial view of the devastating fires currently ravaging the region https://t.co/vyCkxFnCuWpic.twitter.com/wn0g1WdVkv
-Is the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest -Is home to at least 10% of global biodiversity -Produces 20% of the world's oxygen -Helps regulate the planet's temperature
These two disturbing images illustrate the extent of the fires that are blazing through the Amazon right now.
One is from NASA's FIRMS, which pinpoints individual fires, and the other is from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, which shows biomass burning aerosol. pic.twitter.com/jOah9dJf6E
Scientists warn that losing another fifth of Brazil’s Amazon will trigger the feedback loop known as dieback, in which the forest begins to dry out and burn in a cascading system collapse, beyond the reach of any subsequent human intervention or regret. https://t.co/oQquBYsM3Z