Record number of fires are consuming the 'lungs of the planet'

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Wildfires have raged for weeks in Brazil's Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest, which produces around 20 percent of the oxygen on Earth. Its protection is critical to the fight against climate change. But the Brazilian government says it doesn't have enough resources to combat the growing number of wildfires in the Amazon.