Amazon Fires Choke Manaus as a NASA Scientist Calls the Rainforest the Second Domino in an El Niño Fire Chain

Nature World News | 17.10.2026 03:31
Fires are spreading through the central and eastern Amazon rainforest as an El Niño-driven drought leaves Brazil's forests primed to burn, according to NASA Earth Observatory. On Oct. 12, heavy smoke blanketed Manaus, a city of more than 2 million people, pushing fine-particle pollution above 135 micrograms per cubic meter.
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