According to Dan Nepstad, a lead author on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, 2019’s fires are about the same as 2016 and far less than many other recent years. Deforestation is down significantly—about 70 percent—since peaks in the mid-2000s.
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