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The annual deforestation rate in Brazil's Amazon plunged from nearly 11,000 square miles in 2004 to 1,700 square miles in 2012-an 84 percent decline. Now, once again, powerful economic and development pressures are bearing down on the Brazilian Amazon. Deforestation has trended upwards since 2012, with a sharp 29 percent increase in the rate of clearing in 2016. [Source: JSTOR Daily]
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