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In an interview with the New York Times' Andreoni and Hauser, the science director of Brazil's Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Ane Alencar, expressed concern that these fires at the beginning of the fire season "could still get much worse". Alencar was shocked at the data. El Niño had caused a drought from 2014 to 2016, but in 2019 there was not an extreme drought in the Amazon. The dry season in the Amazon runs from July through November peaking in September. During the annual "queimada" when farmers use light fires to clear land for development, to grow crops—such as soybean—and for cattle ranching, which is often illegal, according to the Washington Post and the Smithsonian Magazine.

The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported a "discernible spike" the emissions of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide generated by the fires.

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