Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon set a new record for January just three weeks into the year, according to data released yesterday, a worrying sign of the surging destruction of the world's biggest rainforest.
Nearly 360 square kilometres of forest cover - an area more than six times the size of Manhattan - were destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon from 1 January to 21 January, said Brazil's national space research institute, INPE.
With 10 days to go in the month, the figure was already the worst for January since the institute launched its DETER satellite monitoring program in 2015.
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