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josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 14:48:23 JST josh buermann

The main culprit behind the loss of the Amazon, researchers say, was Obama's endorsement of Bolsarno's judicial coup.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03469-6
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1. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped between January and July this year — by 42.5% compared with the same period in 2022, according to data from Inpe — but this follows a number of years of record destruction. The main culprit, say researchers who spoke to Nature, is agribusiness. Ranchers and farmers have cleared trees to expand Brazil’s agricultural area by about 50% over the past four decades, mostly in the Amazon, according to a report from MapBiomas, a consortium of academic, business and non-governmental organizations that monitor land use in the country. About 20% of the Amazon rainforest is deforested, and 40% is degraded — which means trees are still standing, but their health has faded and they are prone to fire and drought, Gatti says. “That was all done by humans.”
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