Smoke blown from fires in drought-striken Argentina shrouds Asunción and surrounding regions in dangerous haze
– in turn linked to the global climate crisis, the la Niña weather pattern, and rampant deforestation for soybean plantations and cattle ranches in the Amazon and beyond – as lying behind the blazes.
“Scorching summer temperatures, high winds, and dry vegetation have combined to turn parts of South America into a tinderbox,” said NASA in a report withThe fires are decimating irreplaceable wildlife in Argentina’s vast, northeastern wetlands, killing and displacing jaguars, anteaters, capybaras, birds and amphibians.covering about 1,600 square kilometres in the far north of Corrientes close to the Paraguayan border, was lost after lightning struck the dried-out nature reserve.
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