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‘Apocalyptic’ fires are ravaging the world’s largest tropical wetland

Infernos in South America’s Pantanal region have burnt twice the area of California’s fires this year. Researchers fear the rare ecosystem will never recover.
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When Luciana Leite arrived in the Pantanal on 2 September, she thought she would be celebrating her wedding anniversary. Instead, the biologist and her husband spent their eight-day planned holiday aiding volunteers and firefighters struggling to extinguish the burning landscape.

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Nature 586, 20-21 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02716-4

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  1. Marengo, J. A., Oliveira, G. S. & Alves, L. M. in Dynamics of the Pantanal Wetland in South America (eds Bergier, I. & Assine, M) https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2015_357 (Springer, 2015).

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