The 19 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a yeartoyear surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru during that year's Amazonian tropical dry season Fires normally occur around the dry season as slashandburn methods are used to clear the forest to make way for agriculture, livestock, logging, and mining, Brazil Sky reporter witnesses industry 'eating' into the Amazon rainforest Oakland News Now Cloud Leaf Group,hyperlocal news, demand media inc, Alameda County sale Surplus Lands Act, Centre Urban, Oakland Municipal Auditorium, One Lake Merritt Hotel, Laney College , Libby Schaaf Mayor, Amber Eikel, 49ers trade rumors, 415 Media, Rich Lieberman,Spanish Río Amazonas, Portuguese Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river in the world The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century as the Amazon's most distant source, until a 14
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