Far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro calls satellite data showing rise in deforestation ‘lies’
The director of Brazil’s National Space Research Institute has been sacked in the midst of a controversy over its satellite data showing a rise in Amazon deforestation, which the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has called “lies”.
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