Deforestation preceded fires in ‘massive’ area of Amazon in 2019

Mongabay
Nov 14, 2019, 5:01 am617 ptsHot
The prevailing narrative about the Brazilian Amazon this past summer was that the world’s largest rainforest was burning. A more accurate assessment would be that vast areas that used to be forest were burning, according to work by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). In a study published Nov.…

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