When Bolsonaro Tweeted, Amazon Deforestation Surged

As president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro not only weakened environmental regulations and gutted agencies charged with protecting the Amazon, he also railed against conservation. An analysis of his tweets and those of his ministers finds a link between their rhetoric and the acres of forest lost. 

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• Source: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bolsonaro-tweets-amazon