Brazil

	Although forest clearing for pasture is the primary driver of Amazon deforestation in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, a new study led by scientists at the University of Maryland showed that large- scale mechanized agriculture, mostly for soybeans, is rapidly becoming a major force behind forest loss in the region..... ....read more
	The wide, multi-island zone in the Rio Negro (Black River) shown in this astronaut photograph from September 2, 2006, is one of two, long "archipelagoes" upstream of the city of Manaus (not shown) in central Amazonia (Brazil). Sixty kilometers of the total 120-kilometer length of this archipelago .... ....read more