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Snorting away the rainforest

In Indonesia and Malaysia, hungrily expanding  oil-palm plantations are swallowing pristine jungles. In the Brazilian Amazon, cattle-ranching has chewed up an area of forest the size of Italy in just 22 years. In Madagascar, an explosion in sapphire mining is nibbling away at natural treasures. Now, we can pinpoint with increasing certainty a […]