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What's the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?
2015-05-16 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Nearly two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil, making it the biggest component in the region's deforestation rate. Helpfully, Brazil also has the best systems for tracking deforestation, with the government and Imazon, a national civil society organization, releasing updates on a quarterly and monthly basis using MODIS satellite data, respectively. Both the Brazilian government and Imazon release more accurate data on an annual basis using higher resolution Landsat satellite imagery....
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