{"id":4086,"date":"2026-10-19T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2026-10-19T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:36:25","slug":"hidden-underground-fires-lurk-beneath-the-amazon-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/hidden-underground-fires-lurk-beneath-the-amazon-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Underground Fires Lurk Beneath the Amazon Rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satellite monitoring has revealed the presence of numerous hidden underground peat fires in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. These smoldering fires, concealed beneath surface vegetation, burn slowly and are difficult to extinguish manually; the total amount of toxic particulate matter and carbon monoxide they release far exceeds that of surface fires. Due to the extreme drought caused by an exceptionally strong El Ni\u00f1o, the number of underground smoldering fires has doubled compared to the same period in previous years. The fires continue to spread deeper into the rainforest, further driving up PM2.5 concentrations in cities such as Manaus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite monitoring has revealed the presence of numerous hidden underground peat fires in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. These smoldering fires, concealed beneath surface vegetation, burn slowly and are difficult to extinguish manually; the total amount of toxic particulate matter and carbon monoxide they release far exceeds that of surface fires. Due to the extreme drought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazon-rainforest"],"views":17,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}