Fires and Smoke Rise Across the Amazon Rainforest During Drought
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Satellites saw many fires in the Amazon rainforest.
- A2
Satellites recorded a fast rise in fires in September 2026.
- B1
Since September 2026, satellites have recorded a sharp rise in fires across the central and eastern Amazon rainforest.
- B2
On 12 October 2026, NASA's Aqua satellite photographed heavy smoke from fires along the Amazon River.
- C1
On 12 October 2026, NASA's Aqua satellite photographed heavy smoke from fires along the Amazon River covering Manaus, a city of more than 2 million residents.
- C2
When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Amazon River on 12 October 2026, its cameras recorded a thick blanket of smoke from nearby fires smothering Manaus, a metropolis of more than two million residents.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- sharp
- sudden, rapid, and large in amount
- drought
- a long period when there is little or no rain
- resident
- a person who lives in a particular place
- particle
- a very small piece of matter, such as dust
- pasture
- land covered with grass that is used for feeding farm animals
- beneath
- in or to a lower position than something; under
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA Earth Observatory. Read the original for the full report.