This is what four decades of Amazon deforestation looks like. (Spoiler: It’s bad)

NASA satellite image.

On the left, above, is the Amazon rainforest as it existed in 1975 in Rondonia, a region in western Brazil. On the right is that same stretch of rainforest in 2012.

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Destroying the World’s forests in perspective.