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ClimateWire: The Amazon forests of Central and South America are at increased risk of fires in 2016 due to the ongoing El Niño, according to NASA scientists.
This El Niño, which has helped trigger more than 100,000 fires in Indonesia and spewed an estimated 1.75 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents into the atmosphere, will next threaten tropical forests in Southeast Asia and in southern Mexico, Guatemala and other countries in Central America, said James Randerson, an Earth system scientist at......
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Burning Amazon forests and a rain-drenched Calif. are likely to come with El Niño – researchers
Posted by ClimateWire: Gayathri Vaidyanathan on December 17th, 2015
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