INPE's director is dismissed after defending the deforestation data

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The head of Brazil's space research institute is removed from office following a public dispute with the federal government over DETER figures showing rising clearance. The episode is the clearest demonstration of why an openly published, methodologically fixed satellite record is a political institution as well as a scientific one - and of what it costs to maintain.

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