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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 forest vegetation representing the largest living reservoir of carbon. Logging and land conversion, main...

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 tropical rainforests, and degraded another 30 percent, leaving them more vulnerable to fire and future dest...

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.