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Amazon fire season 'linked to ocean temperature'
Description: A team of US scientists has found there was a correlation between El Nino patterns in the Pacific and fire activity in the eastern Amazon. Writing in the journal Science, they say they also found a link between Atlantic SST changes and fires in southern areas of South America. They said the data could help produce forecasts of forthcoming fire seasons. [Source: BBC News]
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15691060
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Source: BBC News
Publish Date: 11/11/2011
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