{"id":14781,"date":"2019-08-21T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T09:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14781"},"modified":"2019-08-21T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T09:41:03","slug":"amazon-forest-fire-is-on-the-rise-at-record-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/amazon-forest-fire-is-on-the-rise-at-record-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon forest fires are on the rise at record rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number so far this year with 72,843 fires identified. This marks a 83% increase compared to the same time last year and is the highest record since records began.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">friendly reminder that the Amazon forest has been on fire for 20+ days now, wildlife is being killed and half of brazil is being covered in such a thick layer of dust and ashes that S\u00e3o Paulo got dark at 3pm yesterday bc sunlight couldn\u2019t breach through <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iKkFHDqoXz\">pic.twitter.com\/iKkFHDqoXz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 \ud835\ude37\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude24\ud835\ude35\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude33\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude22 (@lgbtxluthor) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lgbtxluthor\/status\/1163782856688242689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Smoke from the fires caused a blackout in the city\u00a0 of Sao Paulo on Monday. The daytime blackout came after strong winds carried smoke from forest fires burning in the states of Amazonas and Rondonia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Jos\u00e9lia Pegorim, Climatempo meteorologist, told Globo:<\/strong> \u201cThe smoke did not come from fires from the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, but from very dense and wide fires that have been going on for several days in Rond\u00f4nia and Bolivia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe cold front changed the direction of the winds and transported this smoke to S\u00e3o Paulo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Amazon is one of the largest rainforests in the world and is vital for carbon store which contributes to slow down the rate of global warming. It is home to around three million plants and animals plus one million people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wildfires normally happen in the Amazon during dry season however sometimes they are deliberately started to try and forested land for farm animals illegally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The hashtag #prayforamazonia has now emerged as a global Twitter trend with more than 150,000 references to the fires.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amazon rainforest, the world\u2019s largest tropical forest is on fire since 3 Weeks. It\u2019s an area that almost never burns on its own, yet the blazes have grown so intense that they blacked out the sky above. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmazonRainforest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AmazonRainforest<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmazonFire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AmazonFire<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P0eQSSCF2O\">pic.twitter.com\/P0eQSSCF2O<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Zeeshan Saeed (@dudeimlegend) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dudeimlegend\/status\/1163932056310689794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An emergency was declared on August 9th in the Amazon after fires continued to blare.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number so far this year with 72,843 fires identified. This marks a 83% increase compared to the same time last year and is the highest record since records began. friendly reminder that the Amazon forest has been on fire for 20+ days now, wildlife is being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[236,1588,1243],"class_list":["post-14781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-worldwide-news","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-fire","tag-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14785,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14781\/revisions\/14785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}