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Green sprouts grow from the ashes of Brazil’s refractory savannah

Aerial view of dry vegetation in the savannah known as the Cerrado in San Desiderio, western Bahia, Brazil, taken on September 26, 2023. Plants began to regrow there shortly after the recent devastating wildfires. The massive wildfires that recently swept across Brazil have not spared its vast tropical savannahs, where green shoots are already beginning to emerge from the ashes…