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Earth Observatory Highlight: Impacts of drought and human activity on burn areas of the Pantanal in South America

NASA scientists use LIS and NASA satellite datasets to show how human activities and cattle grazing helped set the stage for extreme fire years that occurred under a prolonged drought in the Pantanal region of South America, where one of the largest freshwater wetlands is found.

For the latest NASA Earth Observatory highlight of this story, please visit: 

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149398/a-human-fingerprint-on-the-pantanal-inferno

Main reference of the recently published article:

Kumar, S.V., A. Getirana, R. Libonati, C. Hain, S. Mahanama, N. Andela 2022: Changes in land use enhance the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to fire-climate extremes, Sci. Rep 12, 964, doi:10.1038/s41598-022-05130-0.