{"id":25942,"date":"2009-02-02T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/02\/it-only-gets-worse\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T14:10:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T14:10:01","slug":"it-only-gets-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/it-only-gets-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"It only gets worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/environment\/090109-bts-deforestation.html\">Amazon Deforestation: Earth&#8217;s Heart and Lungs Dismembered<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brazil has historically had the distinction of serving as the world&#8217;s leader of deforestation.  &#8230; during the last three decades, an annual average of 6,500 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon &#8212; an area that is greater than the size of Connecticut &#8212; has been deforested.  <\/p>\n<p>Satellite data indicates that the rate of Amazonian deforestation is accelerating; in some areas, the rate increased by 50 percent since last year.  And with over 20 million people and 70 million cattle now inhabiting the Amazon, about a 600 percent increase in the last 60 years, more trees are being razed to make room for cattle ranches<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat Tip: Ana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Amazon Deforestation: Earth&#8217;s Heart and Lungs Dismembered&#8221; Brazil has historically had the distinction of serving as the world&#8217;s leader of deforestation. &#8230; during the last three decades, an annual average of 6,500 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon &#8212; an area that is greater than the size of Connecticut &#8212; has been deforested. Satellite data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/it-only-gets-worse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It only gets worse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[239],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Kq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}