#In the Amazon, forest degradation is outpacing full deforestation
“#In the Amazon, forest degradation is outpacing full deforestation” Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased abruptly in the past two years, after having been on a downward trajectory for more than a decade. With the country’s president Jair Bolsonaro notoriously enthusiastic about expanding into the rainforest, new deforestation data regularly makes global headlines. But what…