# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hRoR4H9GR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16447290-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-09-17T17:00:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

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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 ⁠
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Getty Images is participating in #CoveringClimateNow, a project co-founded by columbiajournalismreview and nationmag aimed at strengthening the media’s focus on the climate crisis. Join us all week as we highlight some of the best climate change and environmental stories we’ve done recently in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on September 23.⁠
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#climatechange #environment #nature #earth #globalwarming #sustainability #sustainable #savetheplanet #unitednationsclimatechange⁠

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