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Investigate how segments of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest are cleared for lumber, agriculture, and grazing

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Damage to the Amazon rainforest caused by burning and cutting.
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Two new howler monkey species discovered in the Amazon after 85 years • Nov. 10, 2026, 3:30 PM ET (Phys.org)
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Brazil investigates Amazon wildfires that disrupt daily life and have fueled political attacks • Oct. 15, 2026, 9:00 AM ET (AP)

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NARRATOR: More and more rainforest is cleared as a way of solving growing problems. And the needs of tomorrow lose to the needs of today, whether for more housing, or roads, or lumber, or farmland, or pasture.

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So many fires burn at once that the smoke can be seen by satellites in space.

Several years after a burn, the soil is suitable only for grass and cattle grazing. The rainforest does not return.

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