Every half hour, the world lost a football-field chunk of tropical forest in 2018.
Over the course of the year, that added up to a total forest loss of nearly 30 million acres, according to the World Resources Institute’s annual report, out Thursday. As bad as that sounds, many more acres were lost in each of the two previous years, when huge fires wiped out millions of trees. Deforestation is responsible for about 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. If deforestation were a country, it would be the third largest source of carbon pollution, after the United States and China.
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— source grist.org | Apr 25, 2019