The remains of some of the 700,000 square kilometers of rainforest land which has been deforested in the Amazon basin since 1970, according the the National Institute of Space Research of Brazil, lie next to some farm buildings near Alta Floresta in…
A view of burnt Amazon Rainforest near Alta Floresta in Para State, Brazil, set ablaze during the burning season when large sections of it are torched by farmers, to clear it for soy farming or cattle grazing, Sept. 18, 2007. By 2006 the Amazon…