Amazon Burning Is Mostly Farms, Not Forests

"Don't Panic: Amazon Burning Is Mostly Farms, Not Forests"
Problematic deforestation continues, but the "lungs of the earth" are still breathing.
Ronald Bailey | 8.23.2019 4:35 PM

"A 2018 study in Nature reported that the global tree canopy cover had increased by 865,000 square miles from 1982 to 2016. As Brazilians become wealthier, the deforestation trend in the Amazon will likely turn around toward afforestation, as it already has done many other countries." Most of the burning today is on land that was already cleared for farming.