Smoke from intense wildfires in the Amazon rainforest and other parts of Brazil was choking major cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on Monday, and wafting into neighboring countries.
Karla Longo, a researcher at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), said that satellite images showed that 60 percent of Latin America’s largest country had been affected by smoke.
“If we consider the areas affected in neighboring countries and the Atlantic Ocean, the area affected on Sunday was around ten million square kilometers (3.8 million square miles),” she added.
Authorities in Argentina and Uruguay reported smoke from Brazil’s fires impacting parts of their countries on Monday.
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Smoke from Brazil fires clouds major cities, neighboring countries
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