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Article: BRAZIL: DROUGHT DEPLETES AMAZON, REPORT SHOWS RAIN FOREST DISAPPEARING MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN PRIOR ESTIMATES.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- February 17, 2006
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The end of 2005 brought a record-breaking drought to Brazil's Amazon River basin, leading to a state of emergency in several areas. The drought coincided with a new report by scientists who said previous efforts to analyze the depletion of the world's largest rain forest--which did not adequately take selective logging into account--may have significantly underestimated the degree to which logging was affecting the Amazon.
"Selective-logging" analysis reveals 60% underestimate
A team of scientists from Brazil and the US published an October 2005 report in the US journal Science suggesting that deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon had been underestimated ...