The Amazon's oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceFeb 4, 2015, 12:50 pm71 pts
Hungry for oil revenue, governments and fossil fuel companies are moving even further into one of the world's last great wildernesses, according to a new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The total area set aside for oil and gas in the Western Amazon has grown by 150,000 square kilometers…

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