Brazil continues to burn: fires are advancing throughout the country and are already 52% more than in 2018; Inpe has registered 123,786 outbreaks of fires in Brazil in 2019

Favored by dry weather, forest fires continue to advance throughout the country. Brasilia, for example, completed 107 days without rain and is seeing the burnings approach buildings in the federal capital. From January until Tuesday, 17, satellites of the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) recorded 123,786 outbreaks of fires in Brazil, 52% more than in the same period last year, when they were 81,393. In just over half of this month, there are 33,375 outbreaks.

In the Pantanal, the largest flooded plain in the world, about 90% of the fire outbreaks come from Pantanal, according to environmentalists and the state government. For this reason, the wave of fires will be the subject of an investigation by the Corumbá MPF. The municipality, the most important urban area of the Pantanal territory, is the first in the country with the hottest spots.

So far, research has pointed to the difficulties encountered by public institutions in fighting fires. There is a lack of material resources and people.

American experts investigate the cause of fire in Chapada dos Guimarães park in Mato Grosso. The fires have already destroyed nearly 50,000 hectares of green area in the park region. In the state of Mato Grosso alone there are more than 16,000 fires in less than two months.

In Altamira, Pará, the Federal Police identified deforestation and land grabbing areas of over 15,000 hectares in Indigenous lands that belong to the Ituna Itatá people.

Brazil continues to burn: fire destroys an environmental protection area in Alter do Chão, at the state of Pará, in the Amazon region

A major fire that struck an area of environmental protection in the Ponta das Pedras community in the municipality of Santarém, in Alter do Chão, one of Pará's main tourist destinations, prompted the government of the northern state of Brazil to urgently request that Northern Military Command send aircrafts and National Force reinforcements to assist in combat near the village of Alter do Chão.

The fire gained great proportions yesterday. Today, the forest known as Capadócia, struck by fire, is targeted by the Fire Department, in partnership with the Northern Military Command of the Brazilian Army. The fire has been controlled.

Meanwhile, fires in the Brazilian Midwest cause millionaire damage to farmers. Because of the burnings, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul declared an emergency situation hoping to receive more assistance from the federal government.

In this region affected by the fires is also located the Pantanal, the largest continuous floodplain in the world. Since January, Corumbá, the largest city in the Pantanal, has recorded over 3,100 fire outbreaks.

Fight against deforestation in Brazil decreases under the government of Jair Bolsonaro

Ibama inspectors, the body responsible for environmental protection in Brazil, applied fewer warnings and fines for flora infringement until the end of August 2019 in the Legal Amazon. In Brazil, fires caused by human action or deforestation are crimes against flora, as well as the sale of illegal timber.

According to a report made by the gazetaweb site and the G1 site, servers that fight environmental crimes in Brazil say that the embargoes are not respected and that Ibama is weakened in the current administration.

The problem of environmental destruction in Brazil is not restricted to the Amazon region. Last week, the Cerrado and the Pantanal were also the targets of the same problem.

Last Thursday, the government of Mato Grosso do Sul decreed a state of emergency after more than 1 million hectares were consumed by fire.

According to Exame magazine, data from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) burnings show that the Pantanal closed August with 4,660 fire outbreaks, 235% more than in the same period last year and 50% more. than the historical average between 1998 and 2018.

Smoke from Amazonian and Pantanal fires darken Brazil's Midwest and Southeast cities; São 16h (It's 4pm) becomes a trend on Twitter in Brazil

The city of Sao Paulo has become an apocalyptic movie set today. The CGE (São Paulo City Hall's Climate Emergency Management Center) explanation for the darkness is related to the weather and the burning that take place in the country. The Civil Defense has warned of heavy rain in some parts of the metropolitan region of the city and winds that have brought particulate matter originating from burning in Paraguay, on the border with Mato Grosso do Sul, and other regions in Brazil, turn the sky black.

The unusual darkness of the sky in the middle of the day frightened residents of São Paulo and other large cities in southeastern Brazil.

The subject took over social networks in Brazil. On Twitter, the "São 16h" trend has produced thousands of comments and photo posts from the completely dark sky in the middle of the day in São Paulo and other cities.