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Fires in the Amazon: El pulmón del planeta está en llamas Posted by Anais on Aug 26, 2019
The Amazonas is one of Earth’s key ecological regions — so much so that it has been nicknamed “el pulmón del planeta” (the planet’s lung) — but the most recent forest fires registered there are unprecedented, according to weather and conservation monitoring agencies. Encompassing a bioma that covers approximately 6.7 million square kilometers of South…