With Bolsonaro’s Rule in Question, Eco-Thugs Plunder the Amazon

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amazon deforestation has soared ahead of Brazil’s environmentally vital presidential election, with an area almost the size of Greater London lost last month alone. Government satellites show a 562-square-mile area of rainforest was destroyed in September, as environmental criminals raced […]