News Headline

Amazon fish species at risk if fires destroy river habitat

Source
National Geographic

Publication Date
2019-09-13

MANAUS, Brazil — This year’s unusually severe fires in the Amazon have not only attracted widespread international attention, but also illuminated the effects of mounting deforestation in the region, from evaporating rains to rising carbon dioxide emissions. Yet one effect of forest loss in the Amazon has largely been ignored: how it influences the river system and the fish living in it.

Content
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/amazon-fires-brazil-threaten-fish/