Mongabay: The Brazilian government has officially confirmed that deforestation in the Amazon is pacing sharply higher than a year ago.
Figures released last week by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows that forest clearing detected by DETER - a short term deforestation monitoring system based on coarse satellite imagery - is 63 percent higher for the twelve months ended January 31, 2015 relative to the year earlier period.
The data lends further weight to figures released earlier by...