卫星在10月上半月检测到巴西亚马孙地区有9,045个火灾热点，较去年同期激增62%，据MercoPress援引监测数据报道。
Satellites detected 9,045 fire hotspots in the Brazilian Amazon during the first half of October, a 62% jump from a year earlier, as a drought worsened by El Niño fuels blazes even as annual deforestation fell to its lowest level since 1988.
这一激增发生在干旱期间，科学家表示，厄尔尼诺现象加剧了干旱，导致雨林植被干枯，造成了更易引发和蔓延火灾的条件。
Satellites detected 9,045 fire hotspots across the Brazilian Amazon during the first half of October, a 62% increase over the same period last year, according to monitoring data cited by MercoPress.
火灾增加与另一趋势形成对比：过去一年亚马孙地区的森林砍伐降至1988年以来的最低水平，即使本月火灾数量急剧攀升。
The surge comes during a drought that scientists say has been intensified by El Niño, drying out vegetation across the rainforest and creating conditions that make fires easier to start and spread. The rise in fires contrasts with a separate trend: deforestation across the Amazon over the past year fell to its lowest level since 1988, even as the fire count climbed sharply this month.