http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/brazil-s-deforestation-exploding-and-2020-will-be-worse > The rainforest burns in Pará, the state in Brazil with the highest deforestation rate. > Development, most of it illegal, destroyed more than 9700 square kilometers of Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the year ending in July, according to a government estimate released on Monday—an increase of 30% from the previous year and the highest rate of deforestation since 2007–08.