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Brazil’s Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level since records began

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 12 25 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 17 Oct 06:13 UTC · Brazil’s Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level on record 17 Oct 12:15 UTC · Brazil’s Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level on record 17 Oct 18:15 UTC · Brazil’s Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level since records began

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES

  1. 17 Oct, 06:13 UTC

    Brazil’s Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level on record

  2. 17 Oct, 18:15 UTC

    Brazil’s Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level since records began

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Jair Bolsonaro · 6 outlets
  • Brazilian Amazon · 2 outlets
  • Space Research · 2 outlets
  • Legal Amazon · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • sq km: 1,236 (1 from 16 Oct 19:37) → 5,516 (1 from 16 Oct 19:37) → 4,571 (1 from 17 Oct 02:49) → 30,000 (1 from 17 Oct 02:49) → 11,600 (1 from 17 Oct 02:49) → 5,517 (1 from 17 Oct 02:49)
  • square kilometres: 3,335 (3 from 16 Oct 19:37) → 5,517 (1 from 17 Oct 13:18) → 3,300 (1 from 22 Oct 14:46)
  • sq miles: 1,765 (1 from 17 Oct 02:49) → 11,600 (1 from 17 Oct 02:49) → 4,480 (1 from 17 Oct 02:49) → 2,130 (1 from 17 Oct 02:49)
  • square kilometers: 3,335 (1 from 16 Oct 22:30) → 5,731 (1 from 16 Oct 22:30) → 30,000 (1 from 17 Oct 08:27)
  • square miles: 1,288 (2 from 16 Oct 22:30) → 1,765 (1 from 17 Oct 14:15)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.