Environment

Government official fired after alert of record-breaking Amazon deforestation

Lubia Vinhas, coordinator of the Earth Surveillance project within the National Institute of Space Research (Inpe), was dismissed from her position on Monday, as published on today’s issue of the government’s federal register. Among other duties, Ms. Vinhas was responsible for overseeing the live monitoring of deforestation activity in the Amazon rainforest, using satellite imagery....

Rafael Lima

Rafael is a Communication student at Wake Forest University, and a student fellow of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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