Built in the early 1960s through the Amazon rainforest, BR-364 was the first overland route to Brazil’s westernmost region. Since then, the landscape along the road has been reshaped by human settlement, with large swaths of forest cleared for commodity production. (via @mongabay.com)

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Built in the early 1960s through the Amazon rainforest, BR-364 was the first overland route to Brazil’s westernmost region. Since then, the landscape along the road has been reshaped by human settlement, with large swaths of forest cleared for commodity production. (via @mongabay.com)

President Donald Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee and Republican-introduced legislation will make it significantly more difficult and expensive for America’s top research institutions — which already cannot keep up with industry compensation — to continue to attract skilled workers from across the world.