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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/29/aqfe7h2r8ny0kjqczy1f-scaled.jpg?quality=7525601439Major fires in the Brazilian Amazon are being set at an unprecedented rate. Between May 28 and Aug. 25, 2020, more than 500 major forest fires blazed across roughly 369,073 hectares, new satellite data from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) shows. That’s on par with the inferno that’s consumed California this month.