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Soy Triste
Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up |
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19 May 2005 |
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| Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up More than 10,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest disappeared from Brazil in 2004, the second-highest level of deforestation ever recorded, thanks mainly to the expansion of soy farming. As U.S.-state comparisons are de rigueur in these stories: that's an area the size of Massachusetts. Though Brazil's government imp ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, logging, news, rainforests (all these topics) |
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