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Amazon rainforest burning at record rate | Explained

With 72,843 fires detected so far by Brazil's space research center INPE, the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year.

Brazilian troops on Saturday were deployed in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry.

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