The rainforest covers an area twice the size of India and holds tremendous stores of carbon, serving as a crucial buffer against climate change.
After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to government satellite data released Thursday.
The UN's climate change report says the state of the world is on "thin ice," but humanity still has a change to turn things around. NBC 6's Alyssa Hyman reportsSign up for NBC San Diego newsletters. “Bottom line, we are prioritizing environmental law enforcement,” Jair Schmitt, head of environmental protection at Ibama, Brazil’s federal environmental agency, said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
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