• Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires 

      Cardil, Adrián; de Miguel, Sergio; Silva, Carlos A.; Reich, Peter B.; Calkin, David; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Vibrans, Alexander C.; Gamarra, Javier G. P.; Zhou, M.; Pijanowski, Bryan C.; Hui, Cang; Crowther, Thomas W.; Hérault, Bruno; Piotto, Daniel; Salas-Eljatib, Christian; North Broadbent, Eben; Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M.; Picard, Nicolas; Aragão, Luiz E.O. C.; Bastin, Jean-Francois; Routh, Devin; van den Hoogen, Johan; Peri, Pablo Luis; Liang, Jingjing (IOP Publishing, 2020-12-11)
      Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). ...