Deathwatch for the Amazon
Brazil has the power to save Earth’s greatest forest — or destroy it
Although its cradle is the sparsely wooded savannah, humankind has long looked to forests for food, fuel, timber and sublime inspiration. Still a livelihood for 1.5bn people, forests maintain local and regional ecosystems and, for the other 6.2bn, provide a — fragile and creaking — buffer against climate…
