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Deforestation drops 18% in Brazil's Amazon

2014-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Deforestation in the Amazon rain forest dropped 18% over the past 12 months, falling to the second-lowest level in a quarter century, Brazil's environment minister said on Wednesday. Izabella Teixeira told participants at a news conference that 4 848 square kilometres of rain forest were destroyed between August 2013 and July 2014. That's a bit larger than the US state of Rhode Island. The figures were down from 5 891 square kilometres razed during the same period a year earlier, in the wake...

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