Corporations have failed to stop deforestation. Can that change in time to save the Amazon rainforest?
@nytimesworld5 years ago
The Amazon lost 3,769 square miles of forest cover over the last year, a 30 percent increase from the previous year. The figure provides the clearest evidence to date that deforestation is on a solidly upward trend on President Bolsonaro’s watch. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld6 years ago
Brazil’s portion of the Amazon lost more than 1,330 square miles of forest cover during the first six months of this year, a 39 percent increase over the same period last year nyti.ms
@nytimesworld6 years ago
From 2006 through 2017, Brazil’s part of the Amazon lost roughly 91,890 square miles of forest cover — an area larger than New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Connecticut combined. nyti.ms