Overall Green Forest fire alert in South Africa from 19 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC to 20 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC

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Forest Fire (5537 ha) in South Africa 19 Oct 2021

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Articles after 18 Oct 2021

People, climate change make even forests carbon emitters

2021-10-28T04:25+0200aljazeera-en (en)

Humans and climate change have transformed 10 of the world’s most highly protected forests into net emitters of carbon over the past 20 years, according to a new report. Land clearance and deforestation, as well as forest fires of increasing scale and severity, meant the forests released more carbon....

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