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Wildfires sweep Amazon as Brazil suffers worst drought on record

Destruction of forest combined with low rainfall exacerbate effects of climate change

Brazil is fighting wildfires that have cast smoke across swaths of its territory, fuelled by heatwaves and the nation’s worst drought on record.

The area of the Amazon in Brazil, home to about two-thirds of the world’s largest rainforest, suffered its highest number of blazes for 14 years in August, according to the national space research agency Inpe.

Other biomes scorched by flames include the vast tropical savannah called the Cerrado that stretches across the centre of the country and the Pantanal wetlands in its south.

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