an economics professor at Syracuse University and a fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics.

where fires have burned 24 percent of the surface area.The other main front that firefighters are battling is in the Pantanal National Park to the southwest.

And between the heat wave and the wind.firefighters face huge logistical battles.Brazil The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil are famed as a paradise of biodiversity.

We call it gray hunger when fire reduces all the vegetation to ashes and there are no natural food sources left in the area for animals that survive the flames.The Pantanal sits at the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest which was also devastated by unprecedented fires in 2019 stretching from Brazil into Bolivia and Paraguay across more than 65.

says veterinarian Aracelli Hammann.

with normally flooded areas reduced to shriveled ponds.according to WalletHubs analysis.

jewelry shoppers will find the largest discounts.JCPenney and several other major department stores will offer the steepest Black Friday discounts across a range of popular products.

Best Black Friday dealsHere are the retailers ranked by average discount.Kohls will be the top spot to get deals on jewelry.