Be warned! Earth is losing ‘a football-field’s worth of rainforest every six seconds’
Since 2002, the Amazon has accounted for half of the destruction, but is the best hope for preserving what remains: study
08 March 2021 - 21:04
Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals, raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly vanishing...
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