south america
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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…
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Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Year
Last year was a bad one around the world — but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, mining, and wildfires, new data published Wednesday shows.
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Chocolate Has A New Origin Story
New archaeological evidence suggests humans were cultivating and consuming cacao — the crop from which chocolate is produced—as long as 5,300 years ago, which is 1,500 years earlier than previously thought. What’s more, cacao was initially domesticated in the equatorial regions of South America, and not Central America.
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Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Strikes Peru
A “strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake” has struck the southern coast of Peru, leaving at least one dead, several missing, and dozens injured.