Amazon rainforest fire what's happening now know all facts and updates

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The Amazon Rainforest Fire has now become an international issue. This fire is so serious that it can contaminate the environment around the world.

Amazon Forests is called the ‘Lungs of the Planet’, that is, the ‘lung of the world’, and 20 percent of the world’s oxygen gets from the Amazon forests.

Brazil has 60 percent of the Amazon forest. If the fire in the forests (Amazon Forest Fire) is not stopped, then people all over the world will be affected. This is affecting our environment.

There will be further environmental and climate change. Amazon has special importance in fighting global warming in the world.

The destruction of rich forests like Amazon will definitely increase the pace of global warming. If a huge carbon sink like Amazon is destroyed, the sea temperature can rise rapidly and the risk of cyclonic storms will increase.

Taking the fire in the Amazon forest seriously, they have come out on the streets all over the world. People are demonstrating to stop the fire and are also running the campaign #PrayForTheAmazon on social media.

The fire in the Amazon forests is affecting Brazil and other nearby countries. To extinguish this fire, it was agreed to give a total of 22 million dollars (157 crores rupees) in the G-7 conference.

Brazil had previously refused to take this amount, but now it has agreed to it. Brazilian President Jeyr Bolsnaro spokesman Otavio Rigo Burroughs” is ready to take the Brazilian government aid organizations and countries through the President that this money will be in control of the Brazilian people to enter Brazil.

” CNN ReportAccording to the Amazon forest fire incidents this year, there has been an increase of 85 percent.

According to the Brazilian Space Research Center, more than 80,000 fire incidents have occurred in Brazilian forests so far this year, more than half of which are linked to the Amazon forests. The fire is so dangerous that the smoke produced from it can also be seen from space.

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Permitano tweeted pictures of smoke from the International Space Station on Monday. Permatang says that the fog is so wide that it looks like clouds in some photos.

The smoke, visible for thousands of kilometres, of tens of human-caused fires in the Amazon forest. #noplanetB #MissionBeyond pic.twitter.com/SyoydfJo39
— Luca Parmitano (@astro_luca) August 26, 2019

How did the Amazon forest catch fire?
The Amazon forests are generally wet and moist, but between July and October, there are incidents of fire in the dry season. CNN quoted Christian Poirier, the program director of the non-profit organization Amazon Watch, as saying that fire is often used to clear land for farming and animal husbandry. This is the reason that man is responsible for most of the incidents of fire. At the same time, according to the BBC, President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, accused NGOs that they themselves set fire to the forests to discredit their government. However, he later said that he never accused him.

Areas that are affected by the
fire Many areas are affected by the fire in the Amazon forest. Many Brazilian states are in the grip of smoke from the fire. Satellite images released by NASA show that the states of Amazonas, Rondônia, Pará and Mato Grosso are affected by this smoke. The United Nations’ World Metrological Organization tweeted that this information has spread in many states of Brazil. The fire is releasing pollutants and carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and non-methane organic compounds into the atmosphere.

#AmazonRainforest fires seen from space 🛰

The smoke has spread across several Brazilian states,this @NASA image shows

Fires release pollutants including particulate matter & toxic gases such as carbon monoxide,nitrogen oxides &non-methane organic compounds into the atmosphere pic.twitter.com/VmuWlhH88r
— WMO | OMM (@WMO) August 22, 2019

According to BBC, fire is active in more than 2,500 places in Amazon jungles. Fire smoke is visible from space. The satellites of the European Union Earth Observation Program captured high smoke images in Amazonas, Rondônia and other regions. For the past week, satellite from the European Union and NASA have been tweeting images of smoke on social media.

How can you help?

You cannot do the work of extinguishing the fire by going directly to Amazon, but you can donate it to the organizations protecting Amazon. Also, you can save your environment with little effort by yourself.

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