New Emergency Meditation Focus: Amazon wildfires
There have been many wildfires across the world over the past few months. Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have also hit a record high number this year. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/amazon-burning-brazil-reports-record-surge-forest-fires-190821052601171.html The Brazilian state of Amazonas has declared an emergency in the south of the state and in its capital Manaus over the blazes. Images have also shown the northernmost state of Roraima covered in dark smoke. Acre, on the border of Peru, has been on environmental alert since Friday, August 16th. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1168414/Amazon-Rainforest-fire-updates-cause-start-Brazil-map-emergency-amazon-forest-fires-latest A satellite image from August 11, 2019, shows plumes of smoke above Brazilian states. Image source On Monday, 19th August, the city of Sao Paulo went dark from the smoke that has traveled from the fires blazing in the Brazilian states of Rondônia and Amazonas and blackened ...