Deforestation in the Amazon may soon begin to feed on itself

15/08/2019 por Tatu D'Oquei

SINCE THE 1970s nearly 800,000km² of Brazil’s original 4m km² (1.5m square miles) of Amazon forest has been lost to logging, farming, mining, roads, dams and other forms of development—an area equivalent to that of Turkey and bigger than that of Texas.

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