Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires

Mongabay
Jul 16, 2025, 3:30 pm591 ptsHotTop
Brazil’s environmental agenda is tasting bittersweet in 2025. While the country’s northern capital city of Belém is wrapped in global expectations for hosting the COP30 U.N. climate summit in November, loud alarms have sounded in the Amazon due to a noticeable growth in deforestation in the first months of…

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