SALVADOR, Brazil--Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes. Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter. #PrayforAmazonas is the top trending hashtag in the world on Wednesday, with more than 249,000 tweets. "No matter how successful we are, if our Earth dies, we all die," posted one Twitter user. Another wrote: "Send your prayers to the Amazon and to the planet, we will need it." Some of the images, however, showed fires in the Amazon dating as far back as 198...
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