Deforestation rate again declining in Brazil

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Deforestation rate again declining in Brazil

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Deforestation rate again declining in Brazil

Brazil

Deforestation consumed 5,012 square kilometers (1,935 square miles) of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in the year ending July 31, 2014, 15% less than was lost in the previous 12-month period, according to official figures from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) released this month. Forest loss in the period, the most recent one for which land clearing totals have been confirmed through analysis of satellite images, affected an area a bit larger than the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It was the second lowest deforestation rate since Brazil began measuring Amazon land clearing in 1988, and marked a return to declining deforestation rates after a spike in the year ending July 31, 2013. That earlier 12-month period saw deforestation of 5,891 square kilometers... [Log in to read more]

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August 2015

Brazil-Peru

China-backed rail plan raising questions in region

Scientists and environmentalists are pushing back against a controversial, Chinese-backed plan to build a 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile), US$10 billion railway across South America that they say ......

Peru

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Panama

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The seizure in May of timber from the lumberyard of a Chinese businessman in the eastern Panamanian province of Darién has heightened worries about widespread ......

Brazil

Deforestation rate again declining in Brazil

Deforestation consumed 5,012 square kilometers (1,935 square miles) of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in the year ending July 31, 2014, 15% less than was lost in ......

Ecuador

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