The Amazon basin’s forest will lose 2.1 million square kilometers of its 5.3 million km2 by 2050 if current development trends go unabated, according to a new projection. However, aggressive policy changes could prevent deforestation on 1.3 million km2 of the threatened area, scientists report in the March 23 Nature.
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