FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows a fire from burning vegetation in Amazon rainforest, in Apui, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 8, 2024. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday, after a record drought that has been plaguing the biome.
Last year's rains came late and were weaker than usual because a weather pattern, known as El Nino, was supercharged by climate change, leaving the rainforest especially vulnerable to this year's fires.
