Amid a loosening of environmental laws under Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has exceeded 11,000 square kilometers, according to official data released Monday. The data shows that deforestation reached its worst rate since 2008, when a national deforestation monitoring program called PRODES recorded 12,911 km² deforested. PRODES monitors deforestation in the Legal Amazon, comprising the western territory of the state of Maranhão and the entire territory ...