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Increasing wildfires threaten progress on halting deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA

    Gabriel de Oliveira

  2. Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Guilherme Mataveli & Yosio E. Shimabukuro

  3. School of Environmental Sciences, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich Research Park, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Guilherme Mataveli & Matthew W. Jones

  4. Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Scott C. Stark

  5. School of Global Development, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich Research Park, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Rachel Carmenta

  6. Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Nathaniel A. Brunsell

  7. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

    Celso A. G. Santos

  8. Department of Geography, State University of Mato Grosso, Sinop, Brazil

    Carlos A. da Silva Junior

  9. Department of Environment Sciences, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil

    Helenilza F. A. Cunha

  10. Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil

    Alan C. da Cunha

  11. Academic Unit of Atmospheric Sciences, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil

    Carlos A. C. dos Santos

  12. National Academy of Sciences, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Washington, DC, USA

    Hannah Stewart

  13. School of Economics and Political Science, Institute of Management in Latin America, University of St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland

    Vanessa Boanada Fuchs

  14. Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Skye Hellenkamp

  15. Physics Department, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Paulo Artaxo

  16. Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Brasília, Brazil

    Ane A. C. Alencar & Paulo Moutinho

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de Oliveira, G., Mataveli, G., Stark, S.C. et al. Increasing wildfires threaten progress on halting deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1945–1946 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02233-3

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