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Look at This Stretch of Amazon Rainforest Cleared in a Year
The Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso Brazil is shrinking. Brazil’s space research agency, INPE, reported that the first quarter of 2022 set a new deforestation record for the rainforest — 941 square kilometers were cleared from Janaury to the end of March. This is the largest area of deforestation that the agency recorded in a…
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Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Year
Last year was a bad one around the world — but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, mining, and wildfires, new data published Wednesday shows.