???Deforestation detected in the Brazilian Amazon broke all records for April, which followed similar new records set in January and February, replicating a worrisome uptick in destruction in a state deep within the rainforest.
“The April number is terrifying. Due to the rain, it is traditionally a month with less deforestation,” Suely Araújo, senior public policy specialist at the Climate Observatory.
Satellite alerts of deforestation corresponded to more than 1,000 square kilometers (nearly 400 square miles), the highest figure for that month in seven years of record-keeping and 74% more than the same month in 2021, which was the prior record.
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