Deforestation In Brazil's Amazon Skyrockets After Years Of Decline

ZE DOCA, BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 22: A fire burns trees next to grazing land in the Amazon basin on November 22, 2014 in Ze Doca, Brazil. Fires are often set by ranchers to clear shrubs and forest for grazing land in the Amazon basin. The non-governmental group Imazon recently warned that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon skyrocketed 450 percent in October of this year compared with the same month last year. The United Nations climate change conference begins December 1 in neighboring Peru. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)