Tipping
Point
THE
From the air,
deforestation
stretches as far
as the eye can
see, near União
Bandeirantes
in Brazil’s
western state of
Rondônia
The Amazon rain forest has existed for 10 million
years. It might not survive the next 100
By Matt Sandy/Uni‹o Bandeirantes, Brazil
Photographs by Sebastián Liste for TIME