HOWELL: Scientists have warned for decades now that cutting down millions of trees will have an adverse effect on the Earth's climate, especially in places like the Amazon rain forest. Recent satellite images reportedly show the rate of deforestation there has nearly doubled. Over the past year alone, Brazil's president, who promotes economic development in the Amazon, slammed the scientific data, he called it a lie. The head of Brazil's space agency, which monitors the rain forest by satellite, says he was fired for defending the integrity of his agency's latest findings. Climate change is also causing the ice to melt in Greenland in alarming amounts. Take a look at this, scientists say Greenland's ice sheet experienced its biggest melt in the summer. On Thursday, it lost 11 billion tons, that's equivalent to more than 4 million Olympic swimming pools, all gone in one day. Experts say because of recent heat waves in Europe and around the world, July is one of the hottest months in history. Greenland's ice sheet is the second largest in the world. And this season's melt has raised sea levels. Russia battling a climate emergency in the Arctic right now. Out of control wildfires have been raging in Siberia since June. And melting permafrost is releasing dangerous carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.</s>HOWELL: Thank you for being with us. The news continues after this.
Brazilian Official Fired over Deforestation Data.