Since satellite measurements began, these forest fires have never released so much carbon, warns the European Copernicus programme.
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The fires that have been going on for many weeks in Brazil have emitted a record amount of carbon (183 megatons) in the Amazon and the Pantanal (an ecoregion of Brazil that extends to Bolivia and Paraguay), according to the latest measurements transmitted by Copernicus and relayed by France Inter on Monday, September 23. This is pollution never seen in 22 years and the creation of this European program that collects data on the state of the Earth.
At the beginning of September, 59,641 fires were recorded in Brazil, via satellites from the Space Research Institute. This is already more than the total number of fires recorded for the entire month of September in 2023. Fires, often criminal, but increasingly extreme, fueled by drought, due to global warming according to climatologists. The CNRS estimates that global warming has intensified fires in Brazil by 40%, according to a study published this summer.