The Burning AmazonFor more than 10 years, men have been burning the Amazon rainforest for cattle ranching. While deforestation is also connected to commercial activities for lumber, soy, paper and palm, the cattle industry is responsible for up to 80 percent of the clearings. Call it progress or greed and lawlessness --however you view the burning of the Amazon, the immense scale of the fires, especially in Brazil, post serious ecological threats.In 2009, the three biggest Br