Burned areas of the Amazon could take centuries to fully recover

Burned areas of the Amazon could take centuries to fully recover

smoke rises from an area littered with charred logs into a hazy sky

An area of the Amazon cleared with a slash-and-burn technique. In this method, forest is cut down, allowed to dry out, and then burned to clear the land for agriculture. | Photo by Jos Barlow

The ongoing fires could fundamentally change the world’s largest tropical rainforest

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Burned areas of the Amazon could take centuries to fully recover
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