Associated Press: The destruction of the Amazon is once again on the rise despite a recent government crackdown on illegal logging, Brazil’s new environment minister said on Wednesday. Carlos Minc said official calculations of how much rainforest has been cut down would be released on Monday by the National Space Research Institute. “It will be bad news. It will be data showing an increase in deforestation,” Minc said in an interview on Brazilian national channel, Globo TV. Minc took his post …