
Amazon deforestation hits 15-year high [By AAP Newswire] Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has soared 22 per cent in a year to the highest level since 2006, the government’s annual report shows, undercutting President Jair Bolsonaro’s assurances the country is curbing illegal logging. Brazil’s space research agency, INPE, recorded 13,235 square kilometres of deforestation in…
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