More than 100,000 forest fires have ravaged Brazil so far this year, as August 2019 saw blazes tearing through the Amazon region in record-high numbers. Rises in deforestation and a practice called slash-and-burn, which is used to make more agricultural land, are to blame for most of the fires. Despite a 60-day ban on land-clearing fires put in place by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro last month, burning in the Amazon has continued – leading to an increase in air pollution and a spike in carbon monoxide emissions, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. In this aerial view, photographer Victor Moriyama captured a section of the Amazon rainforest that was decimated by wildfires in the Candeias do Jamari region near Porto Velho, Brazil. | August 25, 2019 | 📷: victormoriyama | #GettyImagesNews ⁠ .⁠ . ⁠ Getty Images is participating in #CoveringClimateNow, a project co-founded by columbiajournalismreview and nationmag aimed at strengthening the media’s focu...