Development: Satellite data released on 1 September suggests a 68.7% year-on-year increase in deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Significance: The new deforestation figure is the highest recorded in six years, according to the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe) and signals an end to the recent downward trend. According to real time monitoring figures by Inpe, 5,121.92 square kilometres (km2) of rainforest were lost in the Brazilian Amazon between August 2014 and July 2015, compared to 3,035.93km2 in the previous twelve-month period. The new deforested area is equivalent to almost 60 times the size of Manhattan. The figure, however, is…