Amazon fires could increase glacier melting

Amazon fires could increase glacier melting

Credit: NASA

Smoke plumes from burning rainforests in the Amazon basin could increase melting of tropical Andean glaciers, which have already lost half their ice over just four decades and are a critical water resource for local populations.

Brazilian and French researchers made the connection through a combination of observation and modelling and published their findings in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.

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