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. NASA scientist Douglas Morton described the Amazon as the next stage in a chain that began with fires in Indonesia, saying the region is seeing "the second domino in the cascade fall." The pattern follows the same sequence seen during the strong El Niño of 2015 and 2016 and again in 2023. The fires are already affecting daily life. Amazonas state has declared a fire emergency in 36 municipalities, Manaus has closed schools and canceled outdoor events, and NASA scientists expect burning to continue until the rainy season arrives in December or January. From Indonesia's Haze to Brazil's Rainforest The chain began on the other side of the world. Since August, drought and peat fires in Indonesia have sent smoke over entire islands, and Nature World News reported this week that Indonesian haze closed schools for about 2 million Malaysian students. El Niño's effects build over many months, and drought...

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For as long as most of us have been alive, the Amazon has carried a certain reputation: the last great untouched wilderness, ancient and pristine, barely disturbed by human hands. New research from the University of Amsterdam says that story was wrong from the start. The forest as we know it was shaped by fire, and that fire was almost always lit by people. The study reconstructs 10,000 years of fire history across the Amazon basin, pulling evidence from 1,361 radiocarbon dates gathered at 303 sites. The analysis revealed fire in this rainforest basically never happened on its own. Almost every trace of it leads back to a human hand. That’s a genuinely uncomfortable finding for anyone who’s pictured the Amazon as untouched nature, and it forces a rethink of what “natural” even means for a landscape this old. A forest that didn’t burn Before people showed up, the Amazon just didn’t burn. Sediment cores from places like the Hill of Six Lakes in Brazil and the Serra Sul dos Carajás show charcoal that’s either totally absent or present in only the faintest traces throughout the glacial period. One record makes the point especially well: the Campo Libre core, high...

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Well it was fun while it lasted. Last month xda-developers forum members Pro-me3us unveiled a method for gaining system user privileges on Fire OS devices, giving users more control over the software that runs on their Amazon Fire TV devices and Amazon Fire tablets. Among other things, it allowed users to replace the default home screen and disable certain Amazon apps and services.

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Caption: this map shows all the ongoing fires in the Amazon on 21 August 2019 (source: InfoAmazonia.org)The burning of the Amazon rainforest is out of control.With the blessing of Brazilian president