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  • June 2008
    • Half of Amazon Could Be Gone in 20 Years

      Half of Amazon Could Be Gone in 20 Years

      (Newser) - An "unprecedented" combination of ills is threatening the Amazon, and if nothing is done to ease the pressure on the world’s largest rainforest, more than half of it could be gone or withered in 20 years, Rhett Butler writes for Yale Environment 360 . After a three-year decline, forest clearing doubled in the latter part of 2007 to help feed the insatiable demand of the growing economies in China, India, Russia, and elsewhere. More »

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      global warming   Brazil   greenhouse gases   agriculture   deforestation   Amazon rainforest   logging   cattle industry

  • February 2008

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