Most beef production in Brazil is to meet domestic rather than international demand. Since the turn of the century, an area of forest five times the size of my home country, the United Kingdom, has been cut down to free up land for farming…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades
- The rise of electoral democracy
- Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
- 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
- How primary energy is measured has changed across our charts
Climate Change
- Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere
- Hannah Ritchie’s book, Clearing the Air, is coming out in paperback in September
- How do we track a changing climate?
