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Researchers found that the total forest loss between 2002 and 2019 was larger than the size of France, with more than half of the destruction happening in the Amazon region.

Tropical rainforests once covered 13% of Earth's surface. Now, only one-third of that remains intact, according to a new study.

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Bangladesh saw destruction or degradation of 66 square kilometres of tropical rainforest, roughly the size of Narayanganj city, over the last 17 years, according to a report by the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN). Around four square kilometres of tropical rainforest in the country had been destroyed or degraded every year from 2002 to 2019, it says. The report points out that the total area of tropical rainforest in Bangladesh was reduced to 900 square km in 2019 from 966 square km in 2001. ...

comments This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. New data from a Norwegian nonprofit is generating fresh concerns about humanitys destruction of the natural world, revealing Monday that people have ravaged about two-thirds of original tropical rainforest cover globally. The Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) analysis found that human activities including logging and l...

Tropical rainforests cover 6.5 percent of the Earth’s surface, yet hold more than half of the planet’s biological diversity.

The forest loss is also a major contributor of climate-warming emissions, with the dense tropical forest vegetation representing the largest living reservoir of carbon. - Reuters BRASILIA: 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. The forest loss is also a major contributor of climate-warming emissions, with the dense tropical fore...

Humans have degraded or destroyed about two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data revealed, raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly vanishing. The forest loss is also a major contributor of climate-warming emissions, with the dense tropical forest vegetation representing the largest living reservoir of carbon. Logging and land conversion, mainly for agriculture, have wiped out 34 percent of the world’s original old-growth tropica...

Two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover has been degraded or destroyed by people, according to new analysis. Some 34 per cent of the world’s original old-growth tropical rainforests have been destroyed, and another 30 per cent degraded according to the Rainforest Foundation Norway analysis, Reuters reported. The forests were being razed for logging and land conversion, largely for agriculture. More than half of the...

Logging and land conversion for agriculture has wiped out 34 per cent of the world's original old-growth tropical rainforests and degraded another 30 per cent, leaving them more vulnerable to fire and future destruction.