Protecting Brazil’s Forests Could Boost Economic Development

The dry season returned to Brazil’s Amazon region in late July—and with it, forest fires, largely human-made. After making substantial progress in reducing deforestation in the 2000s and early 2010s, Brazil has reversed course and deforestation is rising. In the Amazon, this season has been the worst in more than a decade in number of … Continue reading Protecting Brazil’s Forests Could Boost Economic Development