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    A deforested piece of land in the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, in the state of Rondônia. Carl De SouzaA/FP via Getty Images

    The Solution to Brazil’s Deforestation: Fixing the Country’s Economy

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro participated in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. ...

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    Peter Richards
    A fire in a deforested area in Amazonas state, Brazil. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real

    Brazil Determined to Hand Monitoring of Amazon Deforestation and Fire to the Military

    In a recent announcement, Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão defended the creation of a ...

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    Jenny Gonzales
    Burning the land in the Brazilian Amazon is way too common. EPA-EFE/ROGERIO FLORENTINO

    The More Amazon Poor Farmers Burn the Forest the More They Need to Burn It

    The 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon were the result of an alarming surge ...

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    Federico Cammelli, Jos Barlow, and Rachael Garrett