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Farming Destroyed Brazil’s Rain Forests. It Could Also Save Them

Por: Time World January 04, 2023

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In a field of bare red dirt in São Paulo state, Paula Costa is trying to turn back the clock. Five hundred years ago, this land was part of the Mata Atlantica, a dense, diverse rain forest that covered 15% of Brazil. Its trees stretched more than 2,000 miles along the eastern Atlantic coast, and far inland. But today of the forest has been stripped of trees, with much of it turned over to monoculture farming. Costa, a 36-year-old biologist,... + full article



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