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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>The Amazon rainforest has recorded its most devastating fire season in more than two decades, with new research showing fire-related damage now surpassing deforestation as the top driver of carbon emissions in the region.<\/p>\n

A study by the European Commission\u2019s Joint Research Centre, published in the journal Biogeosciences, found that wildfires burned 3.3 million hectares of rainforest in 2024 alone, unleashing record carbon emissions and accelerating ecosystem degradation.<\/p>\n

Scientists said the findings reveal the Amazon\u2019s \u201cgrowing ecological fragility,\u201d noting that fires once considered secondary to deforestation have now become the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

Using advanced satellite data from the Tropical Moist Forest monitoring system, researchers applied new techniques to distinguish forest fires from agricultural burns and cloud interference, allowing for unprecedented accuracy in mapping fire-related degradation.<\/p>\n

The 2024 fire season released about 791 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere \u2014 nearly equal to Germany\u2019s annual emissions \u2014 a sevenfold increase from the average of the previous two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe escalating fire occurrence, driven by climate change and unsustainable land use, threatens to push the Amazon towards a catastrophic tipping point,\u201d the study warned.<\/p>\n

“Urgent, coordinated efforts are crucial to mitigate these drivers and to prevent irreversible ecosystem damage.”<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Eritrea<\/span> Follow Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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