A wildfire burning for weeks on Amsterdam Island, part of France’s Southern and Antarctic Lands, has so far destroyed 55 percent of the tiny territory in the southern Indian Ocean. A haven for biodiversity, it is also home to one of the world’s two research stations monitoring greenhouse gas concentration worldwide.
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