Mongabay: Brazil's National Space Research Agency INPE today confirmed an apparent rise in Amazon forest clearing for the four-month period ending February 28, 2013.
According to INPE's near real-time deforestation tracking system known at DETER, Amazon deforestation is pacing about 15 percent ahead of last year's rate, when overall forest clearing reached its lowest level since annual record-keeping began in the late 1980s. DETER indicates that at least 615 square kilometers of rainforest was cleared in...