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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jonathan Watts Global environment editor

Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’

Fire illuminates smoke rising above a nighttime horizon of trees on a lake
Trees and vegetation burn in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, in June. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

The devastating wildfires that tore through the world’s biggest tropical wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal, in June were made at least four times more likely and 40% more intense by human-caused climate disruption, a study has found.

Charred corpses of monkeys, caimans and snakes have been left in the aftermath of the blaze, which burned 440,000 hectares (1.1m acres) and is thought to have killed millions of animals and countless more plants, insects and fungi.

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