Brazil sets new record for Oct

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest broke the monthly record for October, with the destruction of 904 square kilometers (350 square miles), official figures showed Friday. The grim news comes less than two months before far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's four-year term ends. The former army captain is a climate change skeptic and has been heavily criticized over policies seen as encouraging deforestation. The DETER satellite observation system detected a three percent increase in the deforested area of the world's largest tropical rainforest compared to October 2021, making it a record for that month, according to the INPE space research institute.