The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen a record number of fires this season, scorching vast areas of greenery known as the “lungs of the planet.”
Amazon Watch, a group that works to protect the rainforest and the indigenous people of the Amazon, says farmers have been setting forests ablaze to create pastures for agriculture.
In this photo, smoke billows in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil, on August 17, 2019.
