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Rainforest lost an area roughly the size of Qatar, more than 11,000 square km

Brazil's presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world's largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past four years under President Jair Bolsonaro. He faces off against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to stop all Amazon destruction and act aggressively on climate change. Protecting the Amazon is vital to stopping catastrophic climate change because of the vast amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas it absorbs.

Between January 1 and September 15, 2022, the Brazilian Amazon has lost More than 400 Million Trees, According to Data from the PlenaMata Forest Monitor

Capital, brasilia, to demand further relaxations to firearms laws. president bolsonaro's son, eduardo, who's a federal deputy, told the crowd that if people were armed, criminals would think twice. staying in brazil, deforestation in its part of the amazon rainforest has hit a six—year high. an area five times the size of new york city was destroyed in the first half of the year, according to data from the national space agency. campaigners blame president jair bolsonaro for rolling back environmental protections and emboldening loggers, and others who clear the land for profit. earlier, i s...

In brazil, which authored the report on the scale of amazon deforestation. doctor, thank you so much for joining us. with regards to this report, what exactly have you found? give us an understanding of the scale of the defour. —— deforestation. this is a vision of how to make progress economically very, very old, you know, it's like 50 years ago, the idea for economic development was destroying the forest, sell the wood, grate the cattle, sell the beef dust create the cattle. and after 2003, soybean arrived in the amazon. and today, the scenario is