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Brazil confirms rising deforestation in Amazon

2015-03-14 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: The Brazilian government has officially confirmed that deforestation in the Amazon is pacing sharply higher than a year ago. Figures released last week by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows that forest clearing detected by DETER - a short term deforestation monitoring system based on coarse satellite imagery - is 63 percent higher for the twelve months ended January 31, 2015 relative to the year earlier period. The data lends further weight to figures released earlier by...

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