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Fire and Deforestation near the Xingu River

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ July 7, 2004

Numerous fires occurred near the headwaters of the Xingu River and the Xingu Indigenous Peoples' Reserve in Mato Grosso, Brazil, during late June and early July, 2004, as seen by NASA's Terra spacecraft.

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