JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020. DISCOVER 93SEARED LUNGS
More than 30,000
fires burned across
wide swaths of the
Amazon Basin in
August, a nine-year
high. Often called
the “lungs of the
planet,” the dense
forest is under
threat from human
activities: Most of
the fires appear
to have been
intentionally set
by farmers looking
to clear land.
— IMAGE BY UESLEI
MARCELINO/REUTERSCAN YOU HEAR
ME NOW?
Photographed in
May in Dongguan,
China, an engineer
stands beneath a
5G base station
antenna that’s part
of a state-of-the-
art testing facility
for controversial
telecom giant
Huawei.
— IMAGE BY JASON LEE/
REUTERS