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The Amazon has lost over 10 million football fields of forest in a decade

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This sobering deforestation figure highlights the harsh landscape changes caused by intentional human encroachment for commercial development purposes, such as logging, mining and cattle ranching. The rainforest’s canopy, for example, regulates temperature, cooling the atmosphere. That is a land size equivalent to 10.3