In the Amazon, forest degradation is outpacing full deforestation
Friday, September 11, 2020 - 06:21
in Earth & Climate
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased abruptly in the past two years, after having been on a downward trajectory for more than a decade. With the country's president Jair Bolsonaro notoriously enthusiastic about expanding into the rainforest, new deforestation data regularly makes global headlines.