PORTO JOFRE, Brazil -- A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet.The enormous fires -- often set by ranchers and farmers to clear land, but exacerbated by unusually dry conditions in recent weeks -- have engulfed more than 10% of the Brazilian wetlands, known as the Pantanal, exacting a toll scientists call...
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