Number of fire outbreaks in Brazil's Amazon basin keep surging despite ban

In the first 48 hours since the ban was issued, satellite data from INPE showed 3,859 new outbreaks of fire, of which some 2,000 were concentrated in the Amazon region.

The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials have said.
 

In the first 48 hours since the ban was issued, satellite data from the National Space Research Institute (INPE) showed 3,859 new outbreaks of fire, of which some 2,000 were concentrated in the Amazon region.
 

From January to the end of August, 51.9 percent of Brazil's recorded 88,816 fires were in the rainforest, according to the INPE, a number experts call a dramatic, direct consequence of farmers' widespread deforestation.
 

Brazil's Amazon region is in its dry season,