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Deforestation spikes in Brazilian Amazon

Nature volume 540, page 182 (2016)Cite this article

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Illegal land clearing hits highest levels since 2008 as environmental policies come under attack.

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Tollefson, J. Deforestation spikes in Brazilian Amazon. Nature 540, 182 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.21083

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