{
  "id": 13410100,
  "title": "Brazil’s Cerrado loses 13.9M hectares of riverbank vegetation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/brazils-cerrado-loses-13-9m-hectares-of-riverbank-vegetation",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-10T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Agencia Brasil",
    "slug": "agencia-brasil",
    "url": "https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/meio-ambiente/noticia/2026-10/brazils-cerrado-loses-139m-hectares-riverbank-vegetation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Brazil’s Cerrado biome lost 13.9 million hectares of native vegetation within 500 meters of rivers and other waterways between 1985 and 2025. This area accounts for more than a quarter (26.9%) of all native vegetation converted to other uses during that period. The data come from a study of the Cerrado released Thursday (Oct. 8) as part of MapBiomas Collection 11, which provides annual land-cover…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}