In pics: Amazon rainforest burning at record rate

6:57am PDT - August 21st, 2019    amazon rainforest - The Times of India

The National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the space agency of Brazil, recorded the highest number of wildfires in the Amazon in 2019. The agency said nearly 73,000 fires were reported between January and August, compared with 39,759 in all of 2018. Th…