https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-weakened-forest-wildfire-deforestation-climate-change-0a79180b8c8e433785dbeb73852f265b

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite assessment.

The breadth of forest that has been lost or degraded was revealed as smoke that has blanketed the country cleared, thanks to rains that may be ending the worst drought Brazil has ever recorded.