WORLD Amazon forest fires: how the lung of the Earth is affected

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Amazon forest fires: how the lung of the Earth is affected

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10:34, August 26, 2019

A tract of Amazon jungle burns in Boca do Acre, Amazonas state, Brazil August 24, 2019. (Photo: VCG)

A tract of Amazon jungle burns in Boca do Acre, Amazonas state, Brazil August 24, 2019.

Charred trunks are seen on a tract of Amazon jungle that was recently burned by loggers and farmers in Porto Velho, Brazil August 23, 2019.

View of a burnt area after a fire in the Amazon rainforest near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on August 25, 2019 Brazil on Sunday deployed two C-130 Hercules aircraft to douse fires devouring parts of the Amazon rainforest, as hundreds of new blazes were ignited and a growing global outcry over the blazes sparks protests and threatens a huge trade deal.

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