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Fires in the Amazon: a barrier to climate change up in smoke - Earth News Report
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Fire is not natural in the Amazon. Virgin rainforest, no matter how fierce the sun, is too wet to catch alight. If the forest burns it is almost always because of humans. Smoke billows from a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, September