Argentina forests burn amid heat wave and drought

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Firefighters battle a large fire in Argentina's nothern Corrientes province where blazes have devoured some 6,000 hectares (14,800 acres) of forests in just days. Since the start of the year, with the South American country facing heat wave after heat wave, fires have destroyed more than 100,000 hectares in Corrientes, according to the INTA agricultural technology institute.

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