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Carbon mapping by the Carnegie Institute for Science reveals nearly seven billion tonnes of carbon stored in Peru’s rainforests, in a technique that could help preserve such stores to reduce carbon emissions
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Report says logging and burning of Amazon might be connected to worsening droughts – such as the one plaguing São Paulo
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While the largest landowners have cut their contribution to deforestation by two-thirds, that of smallholders has increased
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Data indicates 190% rise in land clearance in August and September compared with same period last year
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Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon
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State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum
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