Confirmed: Amazon Rain Forest Fires Are Below Average from Last 15 years... And on Agricultural Land That Was Already Cleared

Confirmed: Amazon Rain Forest Fires Are Below Average from Last 15 years... And on Agricultural Land That Was Already Cleared: Well, this is awkward. It wasn’t man-made global warming after all. It was man-made deforestation. Scientists studying satellite images of the fires in the Amazon rain forest said most of the fires are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared through years of deforestation. https://t.co/Az7WWiCVtr — The New York Times (@nytimes) …