Sat 08 October 2022: Brazil’s Amazon region has experienced record-breaking deforestation in September, continuing a trend that has gotten worse under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. In September, 1,455 square kilometers (562 square miles) of rainforest were cleared, according to satellite data from INPE, a Brazilian space research organization. That surpasses the September 2019 record in … Continue reading AMAZON DEFORESTATION HITS RECORD LEVELS UNDER BOLSONARO