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Interview: What Lies Behind the Surge of Deforestation in Amazon
2015-03-09 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Ecologist Philip Fearnside has lived and worked in the Brazilian Amazon for 30 years and is one of the foremost authorities on deforestation in the worlds largest tropical forest. A professor at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Fearnside has focused his work on how to sustainably develop the Amazon in the face of enormous pressures to cut and clear the forest. Fearnside is now watching with alarm as, after a decade of declining deforestation rates, the pace of cutting and forest...
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