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Brazil lost 80 percent of its National Museum collection in one night. Here's how it's fighting to rebuild

The news arrived with both excitement and a pang of grief: The oldest national history museum in the Americas was slated to partially reopen for the first time since a 2018 fire destroyed more than 16 ...
Phys.org

Brazil's Amazon lost area the size of Spain in 40 years: Study

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday. The Amazon was approaching a ...
Panda

Brazil has lost 15% of its surface water since the early 1990s

The country has lost 15 per cent of its surface water in the past 30 years, according to an alarming analysis published on the new MapBiomas Water Platform. Overall, Brazil’s surface water plunged ...
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Most Brazilian states lost native vegetation in 31 years

Over the past 41 years, native vegetation has been reduced to cover 65 percent of Brazil’s territory, according to Collection 11 of MapBiomas’ annual land cover and land use maps, released this ...
Eurasia Review

Brazil: Most States Lost Native Vegetation In Last 31 Years

Over the past 41 years, native vegetation has been reduced to cover 65 percent of Brazil’s territory, according to Collection 11 of MapBiomas’ annual land cover and land use maps, released this ...