{
  "id": 676585,
  "title": "Most Brazilian states lost native vegetation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/most-brazilian-states-lost-native-vegetation",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-12T14:02:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Agencia Brasil",
    "slug": "agencia-brasil",
    "url": "https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/meio-ambiente/noticia/2026-08/most-brazilian-states-lost-native-vegetation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Over the past 41 years, native vegetation has been reduced to cover 65 percent of Brazil’s territory , according to Collection 11 of MapBiomas’ annual land cover and land use maps, released this Wednesday (Aug. 12). Over the course of these four decades, areas where forests remained intact were less affected by the El Niño phenomenon - the warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean’s surface that…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}