05-12-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com

'The Amazon Is Completely Lawless': The Rainforest After Bolsonaro's First Year

RIO DE JANEIRO -- When the smoke cleared, the Amazon could breathe easy again.For months, black clouds had hung over the rainforest as work crews burned and chain-sawed through it. Now the rainy season had arrived, offering a respite to the jungle and a clearer view of the damage to the world.The picture that emerged was anything but reassuring: Brazil's space agency reported that in one year, more than 3,700 square miles of the Amazon had been razed -- a swath of jungle nearly the size of Leban
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