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Look at This Stretch of Amazon Rainforest Cleared in a Year
The Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso Brazil is shrinking. Brazil’s space research agency, INPE, reported that the first quarter of 2022 set a new deforestation record for the rainforest — 941 square kilometers were cleared from Janaury to the end of March. This is the largest area of deforestation that the agency recorded in a…