Forest Fire (13901 ha) in Venezuela 10 Apr 2024

Event summary

This forest fire can have a low humanitarian impact based on the and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID WF 1019583
Countries: Venezuela
Start Date - Last detection*: 10 Apr 2024 - 17 Apr 2024
Duration (days): 7
People affected: 0 in the burned area
Burned area: 13901 ha
More Info: Global Wildfire Information System

*(Last detection of the thermal anomaly of the fire)

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Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests2024-04-23T09:12+0200.

The Amazon Rainforest continues to feel the effect of 2023’s severe drought that intensified the dry season, provoking blazes across vast regions of untouched vegetation. Fire outbreaks in these swaths of primary forest grew by 152% in 2023
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Cosa c’è dopo El Niño2024-04-19T11:00+0200.

L’ufficio australiano di meteorologia ha dichiarato concluso l’evento climatico ricorrente detto El Niño, affermando che le condizioni nella fascia tropicale del Pacifico stanno tornando alla normalità e che la temperatura delle acque sta c
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Love and grief triumph in photo awards2024-04-18T12:55+0200.

Kibrom Berhane, 24, greets his mother for the first time since joining the Tigray Defense Forces, two years earlier. He lost his leg a month before the peace agreement. And impressed by Kibrom's determination to return to his everyday life,
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (27), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JRC (1),