Environmentalists protest against the adoption of the country's new Forest Code, during the plenary vote of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia April 25. The placards on the left and right read: 'Forest Code, Veto Dilma,' urging Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to veto the country's new forestry code, which proposes to relax regulations in the Amazon rainforest and opening up parts of the rainforest to farming. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

In Brazil, a showdown over rainforest deforestation

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Brazil's president is scheduled to sign a reform package today that could retroactively legalize the deforestation of millions of acres in the Amazon.

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