[:ja]【宇宙からの地球絶景】No.841: アマゾンの火事🇧🇷[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.841: Fire in Amazon🇧🇷[:]

Sammy 2019/08/28

[:ja]ルカ・パルミタノ宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したアマゾン熱帯雨林の火事です。

Credit: Luca Parmitano, ESA, NASA

ブラジルのアマゾンで多発している火災によって、これまでにない規模の熱帯雨林が焼失しています。アマゾン熱帯雨林は7カ国にまたがり、6割がブラジルに属しています。アマゾンでの森林破壊は昨年比2～3割のペースで増えているとされていますが、このまま森林火災が続けば、原住民や野生動植物の生存を脅かすだけでなく、気候変動にも影響を及ぼしかねないと懸念されています。現時点でブラジル環境省は、環境省がアマゾン地帯の北部と、中央から東部にかけて広い範囲で乾燥していることが火災の主因だとしていますが、ブラジル国立宇宙研究所（INPE）は反論し、「乾燥は火が広がる原因にはなるが、そもそも（火を）始めたのは人間だ」との見解を示しています。

地上の様子はこちらです。

Credit: CNN

参考文献： Luca Parmitano’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH

[Earthview Wonders] No.841: Fire in Amazon🇧🇷

Astronaut Luca Parmitano captured from ISS fires in Amazon rainforest, Brazil.

Credit: Luca Parmitano, ESA, NASA

The country’s space research center (INPE) announced this week that the number of fires in Brazil are 80% higher than last year, and more than half are in the Amazon region. 99% of the fires result from human actions “either on purpose or by accident,” Alberto Setzer, a senior scientist at INPE, said. The Amazon rainforest is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America, contained within 7 countries. The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Credit: CNN

Reference: Luca Parmitano’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.841: Fire in Amazon🇧🇷

Astronaut Luca Parmitano captured from ISS fires in Amazon rainforest, Brazil.

Credit: Luca Parmitano, ESA, NASA

The country’s space research center (INPE) announced this week that the number of fires in Brazil are 80% higher than last year, and more than half are in the Amazon region. 99% of the fires result from human actions “either on purpose or by accident,” Alberto Setzer, a senior scientist at INPE, said. The Amazon rainforest is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America, contained within 7 countries. The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Credit: CNN

Reference: Luca Parmitano’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]