Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Fires and Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier, Rondonia, Brazil

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The deep green in this image shows intact Amazon forest -- in western Brazil -- is marred by cleared areas, in tan. A new PEER project will research ways to build local capacity to monitor the changing forests of the southwestern Brazilian Amazon.

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Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, NASA Earth Observatory

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