«The Amazon rainforest has already entered a dieback, in which the vicious cycle between land use (cattle ranching, logging), seasonal drought, and fire are rapidly degrading enormous swathes of rainforest each year. (news.mongabay.com)
THE METHODS Throughout the Amazonian rain forest and the savanna of Brazil, enormous swaths of land are being converted to farms for growing soybeans and sugarcane — all for use in creating biofuels. (discovermagazine.com)
Kaiser Health News reports that an enormous swath of the nation's opioid prescriptions are given to mental health patients. (fortune.com)