https://www.scmp.com/rss/502747/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Gérard Moss is a bush pilot in the swashbuckling tradition. Born in Britain and raised in Switzerland, he had flown twice round the world in his single-engine plane before he set out on a new journey, to track rain clouds across the Amazon in his adopted home of Brazil. Local scientists had an idea: that the forests of the Amazon were the continent’s biggest rainmakers; that most of the moisture in the clouds had been taken up and recycled back into the air five or six times by its 400 billion... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3036657/rivers-sky-devastating-effect-deforestation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3036657/rivers-sky-devastating-effect-deforestation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:00:17 +0000