'Last-chance saloon': race to wreck the Amazon as prospect of Bolsonaro defeat looms

Activists suspect criminals are ramping up destruction in 'last opportunity to deforest without having to pay the price'As his turboprop plane powered through the skies over the Brazilian Amazon, Roni Lira stared down at scenes of villainous devastation.Once mighty trees littered the scorched earth like spent matches. Smoke billowed up from recently torched tracts of land. Immense brown gashes scarred areas where mining pits and illegal airstrips had been carved out of supposedly protected Indigenous lands. Continue reading...