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50,000 km of roads built across Brazilian Amazon in 3 years

2013-10-29 18:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Roads are rapidly expanding across the Brazilian Amazon opening up once remote rainforests to loggers, miners, ranchers, farmers, and land speculators, finds a new study published in the journal Regional Environmental Change. Researchers from Imperial College London and Brazil-based Imazon used maps of existing roads and satellite imagery to track the expansion of the Brazilian Amazon's road network between 2004 and 2007, a period when nearly 70,000 square kilometers of rainforest was felled in...

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