As world leaders gather their resources to fight the forest fires which are devastating the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, satellite images from NASA have revealed a similar inferno raging across southern Africa.
The burning forests cover an area of more than a million square miles in the Congo Basin, often described as the 'second green lung' of the planet after the Amazon itself.
Like the Amazon, the African forests absorb CO2 and are sanctuaries for endangered species.
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