Associated Press: A new system for mapping destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is reporting a surge in areas that have been partially cut but not yet cleared. Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research said the system shows that an area roughly the size of Belize or the state of Vermont was partially knocked down this year. The institute tracked 24,932 square kilometers (9,600 square miles) of partially decimated forest this year, up 67 percent from 14,915 square kilometers (5,750 …