Brazil’s Amazon fires off to record 2024 start as green union blames firefighting budget cut
Smoke from burning vegetation rises in a rainforest in Yanomami Indigenous land, Roraima state, Brazil, March 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on…