Terrifying to think that the Amazon is the largest rain forest on the planet, creating 20% of the earth's oxygen basically the lungs of the world has been on fire and burning for more than three weeks running.
The Brazilian Amazon , home to 1 million indigenous people and three million species has been burning more than three weeks straight.There have been 74,000 fires in the Brazilian Amazon since the beginning of this year,a staggering 84% increase over the same period last year.
The largest rain forest in the world is the critical piece of the global climate solution.Without the Amazon, we cannot keep the earth's warming in check.