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August 27, 2015
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Another PEER team will research changing forests in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon.
The deep green in this image shows intact Amazon forest--in western Brazil--marred by cleared areas, in tan. A new PEER project will research ways to build local capacity to monitor the changing forests of the southwestern Brazilian Amazon.
Credit: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, NASA Earth Observatory
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