An area comparable to the state of Roraima was burned in Brazil between January and September 2024 There were 22.38 million hectares - 13.4 million hectares more than in 2023 The jump from one year to the next was 150% or 11.3 million hectares) of the area burned in the first nine months of this year is in the Amazon The data is from the most recent MapBiomas Fire Monitor survey Approximately three out of every four hectares burned (73%) were native vegetation with 4.6 million hectares burned between January and September this year Mais da metade da área queimada no Brasil (56%) fica em apenas três estados: Mato Grosso o Mato Grosso responde por 25% do total: foram 5,5 milhões de hectares queimados entre janeiro e setembro Pará e Tocantins ficaram em segundo e terceiro lugares Os municípios com maiores áreas queimadas foram São Félix do Xingu (PA) e Corumbá (MS) com 1 milhão de hectares e 741 mil hectares >> Access the September 2024 Fire Monitor Highlights further aggravating the fire crisis in the region - a reflection of the intensification of climate change which ends up playing a crucial role in the spread of fires This is reflected in the figures for September where half of the area burned in the region was in forest formations,” says Ane Alencar IPAM's Science Director and coordinator of MapBiomas Fogo.  September has remained the peak of this year's fires While 5.65 million hectares were burned in August 10.65 million hectares were burned in September - a 90% jump from one month to the next The area burned in September alone corresponds to 47.6% of the entire area burned in Brazil by that month in 2024.  Repeating the pattern seen in the first nine months of this year in September three out of every four hectares burned (75%) in Brazil were native vegetation - the majority in forest formations which accounted for 30% of the area burned in the month accounting for 20% of the area burned in September 2024 As with the total accumulated from January to last month the states that burned the most in September were Mato Grosso with 3.1 million hectares Pará with 2.9 million and Tocantins with 1.3 million hectares The municipalities of São Félix do Xingu (PA) Altamira (PA) and Ourilândia do Norte (PA) had the largest areas burned: 786,000 More than half of the area burned in September is in the Amazon A jump of 196% compared to September last year: that's what the 5.5 million hectares burned in the Amazon last month represent This is more than half (52%) of the total burned in the period throughout the country Half of what was burned was in forest formations (2.8 million hectares burned) Another 33% (1.8 million hectares) was pasture which was the most burned class of anthropogenic use The Cerrado was the second biome most affected by fire in September com 4,3 milhões de hectares queimados – quase metade dos 8,4 milhões de hectares consumidos pelo fogo nos primeiros nove meses do ano e um aumento de 117% em relação ao mesmo período de 2023.  É a maior área queimada em um mês de setembro nos últimos cinco anos com 64% a mais que a média histórica para o período A maior parte das áreas queimadas (88,3%) em setembro foi em vegetação nativa: foram 3,8 milhões de hectares com destaque para formações savânicas (2,2 milhões de hectares) e campos alagados (1,1 milhão de hectares)  “September marks the peak of the drought in the Cerrado and this makes the impact of the fire even more severe With the vegetation extremely dry and vulnerable even resulting in poor air quality in nearby towns affecting the health of urban and rural populations,” says Vera Arruda a researcher at IPAM and technical coordinator of the Fire Monitor the area burned between January and September 2024 increased by 2,306% (or + 1,479,475 hectares) compared to the average of the previous five years 1.5 million hectares were burned in the first nine months of the year A fifth of this total (20%) was burned in September (318,000 hectares) 92% of the area burned was native vegetation 38% of which was concentrated in grasslands and 22% in wetlands and marshes 896 mil hectares foram queimados entre janeiro e setembro de 2024 sendo que 71% da área afetada estava em áreas agropecuárias Um quarto (25%) desse total foi queimado em setembro: foram 283 mil hectares –  um aumento de 382% em relação à média anterior A classe antrópica mais impactada foi a cana-de-açúcar com 72 mil hectares queimados no mês passado due to the greater humidity observed this year in the Pampa the smallest burnt area of the last three years was observed for the period between January and September: 3,100 hectares A reduction was also observed in the Caatinga where 151,000 hectares were burned between January and September 2024 - an 18% drop compared to the same period in 2023 More than three out of every four hectares burned (78%) were savannah formations which indicates that fire is being used to clear deforested areas without supervision or control of the managed area.    there has been a gradual reduction in burned areas in the Caatinga It is worth noting that even with the “La Niña” or “El Niño” phenomena the last three years of the biome have not been drought years it is important to note that the month most affected by fires is October there is still the possibility that the peak of the fires will occur this month depending on climatic conditions and other environmental factors.  An image shows the paintings stolen from the Netherlands' Kunsthal museum in 2012 — including Picasso's Tête d'Arlequin at bottom right Two Dutch citizens claim to have found the missing Picasso work A painting by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from a Dutch museum six years ago may have resurfaced in Romania thieves entered the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam and made off with seven works by masters including Henri Matisse Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin — as well as Tête d'Arlequin Authorities put the work's value at about $900,000 and most or all of them were thought to have been burned The circumstances around the Picasso's re-emergence over the weekend are a bit odd "[Prosecutors] said two Dutch citizens arrived at the Netherlands Embassy in Bucharest with the painting saying they had found it in the southeastern Romanian county" of Tulcea The Associated Press adds: "Romania's Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism said Sunday it was examining the circumstances of a painting a fiction writer said she found under a tree after receiving an anonymous tip." have been sentenced for crimes related to the paintings' theft said she put the paintings in an oven and burned them as police closed in "Olga Dogaru describes how she made the fire, put wood on it and burned the paintings, like she was burning a pair of slippers," Romanian art critic Pavel Susara told the AP in 2013 "She's either a repressed writer or she is describing exactly what she did." In 2014, a Romanian court ordered the four to reimburse insurers about $20 million for the paintings. But Catalin Dancu, the lawyer for the Dogarus, told Agence France-Presse the ruling would be contested we don't believe the stolen paintings were the originals it is up to the museum to pay because it took the stupid risk of displaying the artwork without a proper surveillance system," Dancu said During the trial, Dutch newspaper NRC reported that an analysis of the ashes from Olga's oven showed that at least three or four canvases had been burned there — but that authorities would not be able to be prove definitively that it was the stolen Kunsthal paintings that had been burned And the fates of the Picasso and Monets were even more mysterious because they "were produced on board and paper which wouldn't leave any traces if burned." Prosecutors say the recovered painting is being examined for authentication Become an NPR sponsor The Santana City Council has temporarily closed access to several locations to car and pedestrian traffic as a result of the fire that has been raging in Madeira since last week In an announcement from the local authority informed that “due to the fires” in the municipality it is necessary to “temporarily close From Diário Notícias And more Machico party shouldn’t go a head was respect for everything that is going and all the forest fires this lot shouldn’t burn anything Instead they should go clear the forest area that was burnt and start planting trees and shrubs Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email Brazil had 22.38 million hectares burned by the outbreaks of fire that spread throughout the country September alone saw 10.65 million hectares—nearly half of the entire area affected in the previous eight months The total is 150 percent higher than in the same period in 2023 Native vegetation accounts for 73 percent of the burned area and Tocantins represented more than half of the burned territory the Amazon was the worst affected and accounted for 51 percent of the total fire damage in the first nine months of the year A total of 11.3 million hectares were burned in the time span science director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and a coordinator at MapBiomas says that the fire crisis in the region this year has been exacerbated by a more severe drought due to the intensification of climate change “This is reflected in the figures for September in which half of the area burned in the region was in forest formations,” she declared the Amazon biome burned the most in September—5.5 million hectares of which 2.8 million were in forest formations Among the areas where the soil had already been converted by people the cerrado had 8.4 million hectares consumed by fire the largest area affected in the last five years for the same month “September marks the peak of the drought in the cerrado and this makes the impact of fire even more severe resulting in poor air quality in nearby towns,” IPAM researcher and technical coordinator for fire at MapBiomas Vera Arruda pointed out According to the average of the last five years the pantanal was the Brazilian biome that saw the biggest expansion in the area burned in the first nine months of the year The surge in 2024 was 2,306 percent from the average A total of 1.5 million hectares were consumed by fire of which 318 thousand hectares were affected in September when 92 percent of the burned area was native vegetation the Atlantic forest saw 896 thousand hectares burned saw a reduction in the area affected by fires from January to September 2024—151 thousand hectares and 3,100 hectares affected respectively A fire burns a manioc field in the Brazilian Amazon Ancient farming practices play a role in modern rainforest fires Parts of the Amazon are more prone to fire today because farmers thousands of years ago regularly set the undercarriage alight But Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research (INPE) has only been keeping fire records since 1998 and two decades isn’t long in the life of a forest where trees live for centuries and humans have been setting fires for millennia Paleoecology—the study of ancient environments—offers unique insights into how the first Amazonian peoples manipulated fire in the landscape the effects of those fires on the forest’s ecology over time and lessons that might help to prevent modern fires Paleoecologists take samples from lakebeds and soils and examine those tiny fragments of charcoal that accumulate after a fire hands-on science—teams backpack boats and coring equipment through the forest to remote lakes then drill cores into the sediment layers at the bottom Radiocarbon analysis allows them to date when the fires occurred The first thing this kind of millennial perspective can show us is that there is virtually no natural fire in the Amazon a professor of paleoecology at the Florida Institute of Technology “We have 4,000-year sequences with absolutely no hint of fire from the western Amazon—no charcoal not a speck—and these are not in the wettest parts of the Amazon,” he says Most rainforest trees, with their thin bark and superficial root systems, cannot tolerate fire—and neither can the animals that live there game-changing piece of ecology,” Bush says “It affects everything from top to bottom in that system and it will take many years for those plots to recover to anything that’s recognizable as rainforest.” “The signature of fire is a uniquely human signature in the Amazon It comes right in with maize or manioc agriculture—you know exactly what’s going on; it’s people in that landscape,” he says We can’t say exactly how many people were there, but there were very extensive areas that were very heavily managed.Yoshi Maezumi, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of AmsterdamFlammable forestsYoshi Maezumi a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and a National Geographic Explorer has been investigating that transition in different parts of the Amazon In one study, Maezumi’s team took sediment cores dating back 8,500 years from Lake Caranã in the Brazilian state of Pará near where the Tapajós River meets the Amazon Humans settled in the area around 4,500 years ago and began burning to clear space for agriculture and began enriching the naturally poor soils using a combination of compost creating soils so rich they’re still sought after by farmers today “We can’t say exactly how many people were there but there were very extensive areas that were very heavily managed,” says Maezumi Fire was a key part of their land-use strategy The charcoal records, together with pollen and other plant remains, showed that people were clearing the understory with frequent, low-intensity burning, which Maezumi says would have limited the buildup of fuels and may have prevented larger wildfires. because in altering the composition of the forest the ancient Amazonians also made it more flammable and fire-prone—changes so profound that they can still be detected today Crystal McMichael from the University of Amsterdam was involved in a study that used remote sensing to measure the water content of the canopy in different parts of the Amazon “We actually got results we didn’t quite expect,” McMichael says They’d thought that the fertile forests where generations of pre-Columbian people had enriched the soil—creating what’s called terra preta or Amazonian dark earths—would be more lush than surrounding areas Instead, trees on those sites had less green canopy and lower water content They also had slightly smaller trees and less tree cover with no sunlight penetrating to the lower canopy once you get sunlight you get drying and warmer temperatures.” The knowledge has implications for modern fire management—and the insights of paleoecology could potentially be used to inform how and where burning is allowed in the Amazon that could actually have exacerbated the problem When disease epidemics after European colonization wiped out as much as 95 percent of the Amazon’s indigenous inhabitants low-intensity burning stopped—and as the undergrowth returned These flammable forests—making up perhaps three percent of the Amazon—could therefore act as catalysts for wildfires enabling them to spread into neighboring old-growth stands more drought-prone world that we are facing—a world in which humans light fires—what could we do We could identify the areas that are the most vulnerable like these forests that were managed by pre-Columbian peoples What’s important, says McMichael, is that the ancient burning isn’t used to justify modern fires Humans might have burned some parts of the Amazon for thousands of years but the fire records analyzed so far indicate that the scale of forest disturbance in the 21st century is probably unprecedented Maezumi’s sediment cores from Lake Caranã show the last few decades have laid down charcoal in the lake-bed at a rate four times higher than during the peak of the pre-Colombian period. That would mean there’s nothing in the charcoal archives that can tell us what happens next, says McMichael. “The fires that we see in the paleo record are temporally less frequent, seem to be spatially less extensive across the landscape, and didn’t occur everywhere. So really, we don’t know what happens if you introduce fire into a lot of those other areas,” she says. says McMichael."},"type":"p","style":{}},{"id":"html34","cntnt":{"mrkup":"“The fires that we see in the paleo record are temporally less frequent seem to be spatially less extensive across the landscape Thank you!We have emailed you a PDF version of the article you requested You can also addnewsletters@iflscience.comto your safe senders list to ensure you never miss a message from us IFLScience HomeLet's Explore Ilha da Queimada Grande The Forbidden "Snake Island"Complete the form below to listen to the audio version of this article IFLScience needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time For information on how to unsubscribe, as well as our privacy practices and commitment to protecting your privacy, check out ourPrivacy Policy IFLScience HomeJoin for Exclusive Rachael Funnell FacebookemailRachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. FacebookemailDOWNLOAD PDF VERSION Snake island is the sole home of the golden lancehead, a snake with venom so potent it can melt human flesh instantly. Image credit: Nayeryouakim - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Fans of herpetology might think they’d love to visit Snake Island a remote spit of land off the shore of Brazil where serpents rule That it’s the only place on Earth you can find a golden lancehead might also be a lure until you find out that the species is so deadly that the island has been cut off from public access Ilha da Queimada Grande, as Snake Island is also known, can be found just over 90 miles from São Paulo. Access to the island is almost forbidden as the Brazilian Navy controls who is allowed on the island for their own safety A few vetted scientists and Navy officials have been granted access to the island, but it truly belongs to the serpents. Among them is the golden lancehead, Bothrops insularis, a venomous snake that grows to over half a meter (20 inches) Their venom is incredibly fast-acting because these animals feed on birds who aren’t the easiest to track when you have no limbs What the golden lancehead lacks in locomotion it makes up for in venom potency being deadly enough to kill birds and melt human flesh almost instantly Not a snake you want to get bitten by, clearly, but on Snake Island you might not have a choice. The volume of snakes here has been reported to be as many as five per square meter With such an apparently thriving population of deadly reptiles you might wonder why even the birds bother to visit but they need the island as a resting spot on their migration route The island is a risky resting place for migrating birds. Image credit: Prefeitura Municipal de Itanhaém, Flickr, CC BY 2.5We mentioned earlier that the Navy limits human access to the island for the sake of the snakes If you’re wondering what such efficient killers could possibly need protecting from The venom of golden lanceheads is undeniably remarkable and as such it’s of great scientific interest and makes this species a desirable one for animal collectors Poachers procure these animals so that they can sell the products through illicit markets and with all of the known individuals confined to Snake Island they’re not hard to track down if you’re willing to take on the risks of a trip there breaking into Snake Island and grabbing a golden lancehead probably won’t make you a venom tycoon In an interview with evolutionary biologist Dr Arie van der Meijden, we recently explored the false hype around the value of scorpion venom While news outlets have reported that it’s the most valuable liquid in the world by weight – and it is – it's worth entirely hinges on your ability to find a buyer.  The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted a lighthouse on the island. The building is the remaining evidence of the few people who lived on Snake Island between 1909 and the 1920s: a lighthouse keeper and his family. According to Smithsonian Magazine their story ended badly in the way that you might expect in a place called Snake Island as they were all killed when the animals slithered in through the windows When it comes to animals capable of injecting you with neurotoxins potent enough to cripple your kidneys and melt your flesh animalsWhere Have All The Penis Bones Gone? We’re Looking At You, Natural History Museums2 days ago36link to article plantsTrees Reported To Align Their Electrical Signals During A Solar Eclipse As If Cooperating2 days ago88link to article T. Rex Leather, Glow-In-The-Dark Gas Clouds, And Musical Sea Lionslink to article The Five Most Common Headacheslink to article © 2025 IFLScience. All Rights Reserved. RSS Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging from astronomy and mental health Aristos joined Newsweek in 2018 from IBTimes UK and had previously worked at The World Weekly He is a graduate of the University of Nottingham and City University You can get in touch with Aristos by emailing a.georgiou@newsweek.com. Languages: English either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content Brazil has experienced a record number of wildfires this year according to data collected by the country's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) The figures show an 83 percent increase in comparison to the same period in 2018, representing the highest number of blazes since the agency began collecting such data in 2013, Reuters reported Between January and August this year, INPE reported more than 72,000 fires in Brazil, comfortably more than the roughly 40,000 that were recorded in the entirety of 2018. Since last Thursday alone, INPE said it had recorded nearly 10,000 new fires in Brazil most of which were located within the Amazon Basin The latest figures come as concern grows over the apparent lack of concern shown by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration with regards to the destruction of the largest tropical rainforest in the world The Amazon plays a key role in mitigating the effects of global warming absorbing vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere occurred in the state of Mato Grosso where a total of 8,799 blazes were reported—an increase of 39 percent from 2018 The number of fires has also spiked in the state of Pará the state of Amazonas in the northwest of the country declared a state of emergency in response to an increase in the number of fires there The scale of the recent fires in the Amazon region was highlighted by NASA researcher Santiago Gassó who said on August 13 that they had created a smoke layer covering an area of approximately 1.2 million square miles Some meteorologists have even suggested that the fires in Rondônia may have been partly responsible for blotting out the sun in the city of São Paulo on Monday afternoon which lies more than 1,500 miles away from the state "Here in the Greater São Paulo region we had the combination of this excess humidity with the smoke Fire is used in the Amazon as a technique to clear land for agricultural use in what is one of the main causes of illegal deforestation which means conditions in many parts of the rainforest are conducive to the fires spreading over large areas the fires are largely the result of human activities "There is nothing abnormal about the climate this year or the rainfall in the Amazon region which is just a little below average," Alberto Setzer from INPE told Reuters "The dry season creates the favorable conditions for the use and spread of fire President Bolsonaro dismissed a question regarding the spread of the fires in the Amazon at a press conference saying But it is the season of the queimada," referencing the time of year when farmers use fire to clear land Bolsonaro criticized data collected by INPE which indicated that there had been a significant rise in deforestation rates recently deforestation had increased nearly 300 percent in comparison to the same month in 2018 The president accused the agency of making up "lies" that could hurt the country's trade talks and subsequently fired its chief Environmentalists are becoming increasingly concerned with the administration of President Bolsonaro accusing the government of encouraging deforestation and emboldening those who want to exploit the forest for commercial gain Bolsonaro has moved to weaken government agencies that are responsible for protecting the rainforest as well as regulations covering indigenous lands and nature reserves Bolsonaro—who has appointed a prominent climate change denier to head Brazil's Ministry of the Environment—sees these kinds of regulations as in impediment to economic growth in the Amazon region "The explosion of deforestation can be attributed both to changes in government actions such as essentially ending inspections for illegal deforestation and fining those who are caught and from the rhetoric from President Bolsonaro and his ministers especially the minister of environment," Philip Fearnside a professor at Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research "This has created a climate of impunity under the assumption that there will be no consequences for ignoring environmental regulations." Scientists say that the preservation of the Amazon is crucial if we want to reduce the impact of climate change because the rainforest absorbs around a quarter of all the carbon dioxide released annually by the burning of fossil fuels experts are warning that increasing rates of deforestation are pushing the rainforest closer and closer to a "tipping point" beyond which it will not be able to recover Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsletters in your inbox See all This Region-Free import gives us both versions of Gillo Pontecorvo’s fictional tale of colonial misdeeds that sums up old Europe’s attitude toward the New World Marlon Brando’s agent provocateur and freebooting soldier of fortune foments revolution against the Portuguese and then hires out to reverse everything he’s done for English interests The big scale production was filmed in several locations across the globe; it has a standout performance from Evaristo Márquez as a charismatic peasant eager to become a conqueror The enterprising Italian producer Alberto Grimaldi’s superior legal skills earned him the good graces of Sergio Leone after which he secured contracts with United Artists that made him the go-to producer for some of the most creative directors of the late ’60s and early ’70s Grimaldi’s company PEA aided and enabled Sergio Sollima Bernardo Bertolucci and even Pier Paolo Pasolini Filmed as Queimada, the English-language title Burn! sounds like something that Hollywood might slap onto a ‘right on!’ epic about Black Power. Pontecorvo’s picture reached America just as our industry trifled with revolutionary themes, the worst example of which was Richard Fleischer’s  Che!  starring Jack Palance and Omar Sharif as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara Alberto Grimaldi must have negotiated a terrific contract with United Artists, considering some of the extreme art films that UA ended up backing Marlon Brando’s name value helped Pontecorvo shoot a sprawling epic with no romance and a downer ending that indicted white colonials for centuries of evil in the New World Marlon Brando had kept his status as a top film actor despite ten years without a single big hit movie. By 1970 his status with the studios was nearing the status of Box Office Poison. Paramount strongly resisted his casting as the title character of The Godfather That blockbuster and Grimaldi’s Last Tango in Paris would of course propel Brando to new heights of fame and fortune British Agent Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) arrives to foment revolution on Queimada a Portuguese island in the West Indian Antilles Enticing an illiterate young porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Márquez) into committing a bank robbery he soon has him leading an army of liberation Walker also approaches the business interests of the island led by Teddy Sanchez (Renato Salvatori) Knowing that they also seek freedom from Portuguese control Walker spurs them into overthrowing the country’s president just as the black general’s victorious army reaches the capital Dolores his revolution over to its new business partners José Dolores has begun a new revolution against the entrenched business interests Walker is approached by a well-organized sugar Trust He’s considered the ideal ‘private soldier’ to wipe out the rebellion — and deliver the entire island into English control begins with main titles fashioned in the same style as those for Alberto Grimaldi’s Italo westerns Pontecorvo’s ambitious epic has qualities in common with those Spaghetti westerns — the main conflict is built on cynical double-crosses and personal betrayals this is pretty much the history of much of the West Indies The initial colonizers exterminated the indigenous native islanders when they refused to serve as slave labor They then imported a workforce of African slaves Pontecorvo and Grimaldi were obliged to perform some political revisionism on Burn to insure their continued business relationship with the Franco’s Spain This is why the harsh rulers of the Isle of Queimada are Portuguese instead of the more historically correct Spanish Empire Is it a coincidence that Brando’s fictitious character bears the same name as the American filibuster of the 1850s  Sir William Walker finds that Englishmen are not treated well by the Portuguese occupiers of Queimada The popular black leader he expected to contact is garotted and beheaded soon after his arrival leaving Walker without the puppet revolutionary he needs to raise a black army readily states that oppressed racial minorities are often the first to consider themselves inferior Teddy Sanchez has money to take Sir William to fancy brothels but is ashamed that he’s a mixed-race mulato Sanchez has straightened his hair and died it red in an effort to conceal his heritage to no avail [and Renato Salvatori’s darkface makeup is almost clownish] He finds nobody capable of rebellion until he comes across José Dolores who is willing to kill to defend the honor of his mother Walker befriends the spirited Dolores and soon wins his full loyalty He cons José and his friends into robbing a bank which gives them confidence and starts them down the one-way path toward total rebellion José doesn’t question his benefactor’s motives Asked what he might do if the rebellion succeeds José imagines taking his people back to Africa Sir William fans the flames of the rebellion while simultaneously telling Sanchez & Co that they’d better join the revolution before Dolores has them all executed Neither side gets what it wants — the ultimate victory is really Walker’s Older movies about colonial Empire Builders (Rhodes of Africa 1936) celebrated ‘inspired’ leaders ignoring the national and economic interests that sought to ‘administer’ less developed regions raising armies to enforce their will on relatively defenseless peasant populations Walker manages one regime change on Queimada and ten years later wipes out both of original rebellions for the benefit of an English sugar company The The second time around his actions haven’t a shred of legality The Franco Solinas & Giorgio Arlorio’s screenplay studies the nature of predatory racism: when Sir William reconnects with his former protégé he tells him that they still ought to be friends Gillo Pontecorvo skillfully avoids repetitive battle scenes Most of the action is filmed with Spaghetti Western-style long lenses.t Pontecorvo doesn’t press for exploitative brutality and tortures Producer Alberto Grimaldi engaged Ennio Morricone for an okay score featuring African percussion does remind us somewhat of Morricone’s work for Navajo Joe The show reportedly filmed in Cartagena Colombia, with additional shooting in Morocco. The one thing Grimaldi can’t deliver are convincing English troops. The costumes are okay but only a few faces feel correct in close-up. Scenes of rebels pursued through burning cane fields remind us of The Big Gundown another Grimaldi show with a politically committed script stacks up as an honest primer on colonial misdeeds The script doesn’t allude to contemporary global power struggles — although Walker does mention interesting opportunities coming up in Indo-China  Like other European imports with edgy political content was mainly screened in big cities and college towns Today we admire Marlon Brando — his sharp witty performance shows real commitment to the role He doesn’t lean so heavily on his method mannerisms Viavision [Imprint]’s Region Free Blu-ray of Burn is a fine encoding of a film once difficult to see in a quality presentation Although some of the images still have a slightly rough appearance color and sharpness are much improved over the old (2005) DVD this is CineSavant’s first opportunity to see Burn which is a full twenty minutes longer than what was shown in the U.S. I believe that MGM’s John Kirk restored the longer Italian original but it wasn’t offered on home video because audiences here would not want to hear Marlon Brando re-voiced in Italian There was no English-language mix for the long cut It may have been thrown away in a notorious vault ‘clean up’ by an MGM-Pathé executive around 1990-1991 two-thirds of the characters are speaking in the wrong language The longer Original Cut in [Imprint’s] box should be seen at least once for the extra twenty minutes of detail and complexity it adds to Sir William Walker’s political machinations But Brando is of course much better with his own voice — it’s one of his better performances MGM surely wouldn’t like it, but we wish a hybrid audio version existed of the long cut. Explosive Media notably did that to create an English-language version of the uncut The Big Gundown In that movie Lee Van Cleef’s dialogue frequently changes from English to (subtitled) Italian [Imprint’s] deluxe pop-top box gives us separate discs in separate keep cases The longer Original Cut Queimada comes only with a trailer They start with an excellent audio commentary by Alain Silver and Jim Ursini using research gleaned from foreign publications Ursini gets right into the facts — he says that the twenty minutes dropped for the U.S release includes several political discussions Generalissimo Franco’s Spain indeed insisted that the colonials not be Spanish Alain Silver tells us that Gillo Pontecorvo quit the communist party in 1956 after the invasion of Hungary who first worked with the director on the concentration camp film Kapo The second interview is with Gillo’s son Marco and his widow Picci who share interesting memories of Marlon Brando A 1996 video interview with Gillo Pontecorvo is present as well New video pieces include a talk about political cinema in regard to Burn author of books on Claude Lanzmann and Chris Marker Neil Sinyard offers general thoughts on Burn! Two separate video essays look at Marlon Brando’s career in the 1960s polished Ballyhoo piece with biographer William J Glenn Erickson left a small town for UCLA film school where his spooky student movie about a haunted window landed him a job on the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS effects crew He’s a writer and a film editor experienced in features But he’s most proud of finding the lost ending for a famous film noir Glenn is grateful for Trailers From Hell’s generous offer of a guest reviewing haven for CineSavant Data from NASA and INPE satellites confirms increased number of fires in the Amazon two research institutions that monitor forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon recorded the largest number of fires in the biome since 2010 run by the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) recorded 46,825 hotspots; the Global Fire Emissions Database a partnership between NASA and various other organizations INPE detected 58,476 hotspots and NASA 106,083 the absolute numbers of the two surveys are not equal The NASA data is always higher than the figures obtained by the Brazilian institute but there is a technical explanation for this The Aqua satellite passes over the Amazon twice a day but INPE only uses data from the overflight that occurs at around 2 p.m increasing the incidence and spread of forest fires NASA uses information from both Aqua passes (the second takes place at dawn) as well as two others by the Terra satellite By including data from all overflights by both satellites a single fire that lasts many hours can end up being counted more than once which is why the US space agency’s figures are higher More than half of all forest fires in the northern Amazon occur in the final third of each year, during the driest season Bruno Rocha / Fotoarena Wildfire near Porto Velho fire is used to destroy many logs that have no commercial value Since fire is rarely a natural phenomenon in the Amazon biome (not to be confused with the “Legal Amazon” area researchers state that most wildfires there are started by humans “Our analysis showed that between January and July this year the 10 Amazonian municipalities with the most fires also had the highest deforestation rates,” explains ecologist Paulo Moutinho from the Institute for Environmental Research in the Amazon (IPAM) a nongovernmental organization based in Belém which recorded 1,754 fires and 151 square kilometers (km2) of deforestation had the second highest number of fires (1,630) and the largest deforested area (297 km2) Mapping the overlap between fires and deforestation is not a simple task fires in the understory are missed by satellites and larger logs are only burned months after being felled which can make it difficult to link the fires to deforestation To monitor these so-called deforestation fires Moutinho and his colleagues from IPAM and the Federal University of Acre (UFAC) cross-referenced fire records with information on rainfall in the Amazon Precipitation data was provided by the CHIRPS system of the University of California which combines rainfall information from weather stations with satellite imagery to produce a rainfall distribution record with a resolution of 5 kilometers (km) The researchers cross-referenced the CHIRPS data with information from the INPE Queimadas program “We have seen less of drought so far this year but an explosion in the number of hotspots,” says Moutinho According to forest engineer Tasso Azevedo an initiative run by the Climate Observatory (an NGO involving 36 Brazilian civil organizations) that maps land use in Brazil burning and deforestation are not highly planned phenomena “Since 95% of deforestation is illegal the level to which it occurs is directly linked to the risk of being caught,” says Azevedo The offenders believe that by clearing and occupying an area they will be able to legally claim it.” INPE’s Queimadas program has been mapping Brazilian territory using satellites that detect thermal radiation emitted by fire: electromagnetic waves with peak wavelengths of 3.7–4.1 micrometers The program currently processes images from nine different satellites and uses three types of optical sensors to generate as many hotspot alerts as possible the initiative is also capable of identifying areas where human activities are creating large clusters of outbreaks As well as deforestation fires and burning to clear areas for pasture or agriculture the system also detects wildfires caused by burning sugarcane bagasse and urban fires The instruments on the satellites are capable of identify hotspots as small as 1 meter wide and 30 meters three generations of sensors are used for this purpose: the older AVHRRs; the newer MODIS; and the most modern which can be found on the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 satellites can detect 10 times as many hotspots as the MODIS sensors on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites The performance of the sensors is affected by rain clouds The Global Fire Emissions Database records hotspots in the Amazon based on data from the Terra and Aqua satellites As well as monitoring the location of hotspots the satellites also record their intensity “Radiative power is an instant measure of the energy emitted by a fire,” explains Niels Andela “Deforestation fires tend to emit more energy because they usually involve burning a large amount of wood with highly concentrated biomass If it were possible to observe the hotspots continuously with no interruptions the FRP would be able to determine the exact amount of biomass incinerated But this would require a continuous stream of data generated by geostationary satellites that always observe the same region of Earth as well as a better resolution than current instruments provide Polar-orbiting atmospheric satellites like Aqua and Terra are not suited to such an operation “Although they only provide a snapshot current FRP measurements [obtained by Aqua and Terra] are still strongly correlated with the amount of biomass burnt,” says Andela “This year’s average numbers are relatively high and indicate fires associated with deforestation.” © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved Off the shore of São Paulo lies an island forbidden to visitors They have a good reason: Ilha Queimada Grande "Snake Island," is covered with deadly Golden Lancehead vipers this species of serpent is believed to have the fastest acting venom of any Lancehead viper The effects of its bite include bleeding orifices The density of snakes on the island is estimated at one per square meter Locals in the coastal towns near the Queimada Grande happily recount grisly tales about the island a fisherman unwittingly wanders onto the island to pick bananas and is bitten only moments after stepping ashore The fisherman manages to stumble back to his boat before dying in a pool of his own blood.  More on Snake Island can be found on Atlas Obscura. More on Snake Island can be found on Atlas Obscura. As the fire season intensifies in the Amazon and the Pantanal due to climate change cities in ten Brazilian states have experienced episodes of smoke and deteriorating air quality Images from the Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies reveal a concentration of carbon monoxide spanning from Brazil´s North region to the South and Southeast the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) issued a health warning advising necessary precautions in response to the situation Based on data from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change issued a statement saying that in the Amazon biome the states of Amazonas and Pará together account for over half (51.6%) of the fires recorded between January 1 and August 18 these two states have been responsible for 67.2 percent of the fires According to the Environmental Satellite Applications Laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Lasa-UFRJ) fires have burned 3.2 million hectares of the Amazon this year nearly 1.9 million hectares have been affected by fire accounting for 12.5 percent of the biome's area The Lasa-UFRJ Alarm System has issued an extreme fire danger alert for the Paraguay Basin in the Pantanal The report indicates that until next Thursday (Aug the region will experience weather conditions that will hinder firefighting efforts a government-established situation room has been centralizing the federal response to fires across the country BRL 405 million from the Amazon Fund has been allocated to support state fire brigade units an extraordinary credit of BRL 137.6 million has been released for the Pantanal along with an additional BRL 13.4 million transferred to the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development for humanitarian aid and fighting forest fires A foreign citizen of German nationality who suffered a serious accident in Queimadas ended up dying JM knows from a source at the Santana Fire Department The tourist who suffered a fall belonged to a group that usually takes that route suffered a fall of about 80 meters and died on the spot the injuries were very serious and when the foreigner was found by the firefighters There are 12 firefighters and several members of the Forest Police who are going to rescue the tourist’s body in the Queimadas area From Jornal Madeira Even a young fit and healthy person would have been lucky to survive that drop Home → Features → Natural Sciences → Geography Snake Island – or as it’s known by its official name Ilha da Queimada Grande is a 430,000-square-metre island some 30 km off the coast of São Paulo It’s famous for (you’ve guessed it) snakes But this is not your average snake population this is off the charts – it’s estimated that there’s over one snake per square meter though no one went there to make accurate measurements (heh) Some Brazilians even claim there are 5 snakes per square meter small snakes – but the island is inhabited by some of the world’s most venomous snakes including the Golden Lancehead Viper (Bothrops insularis); there’s about 2000 of them. The golden lanceheads that occupy Snake Island grow to well over half a meter long and the venom in their bites basically melts the flesh around it – yikes the golden lancehead is so dangerous that aside from special scientific trips the Brazilian Navy has forbidden anyone from actually going to the island; and even for scientists it’s absolutely necessary that a doctor is present on the expedion at all times there’s another reason why the Navy forbade everyone from landing on the island – golden lanceheads are extremely valuable on the black market with one specimen going to $30.000 – and believe it or not some people actually took their chances with this and actually has people who come to maintain it (cut some vegetation) at regular time also maintaining the lighthouse on the island because that’s where the birds are – their main source of food. Marcelo Duarte is a biologist who has been studying Snake Island for quite a while and has visited the island for over 20 times He says that the locals’ claim of one to five snakes per square meter is an exaggeration and believes that number to be 1 snake / square meter I don’t know if there’s a record for this but it’s likely the highest population of snakes / square kilometer. I think it’s safe to say that Indiana Jones would not be happy to visit this island some 11.000 years ago the sea levels rose and the island became isolated from the mainland – as were the species which were living on it Since migratory birds were the only food available the snakes started developing more and more powerful venom the last people to live there were the lighthouse man and his family – just as they were about to leave the island they were attacked by snakes from the trees the island is also home to the most venomous spider in the world: The Brazilian Wandering Spider it’s like Nature is trying to write a big “Stay out” sign © 2007-2025 ZME 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