Paris, May 21, 2025 (AFP) - 'Red alert': Fires drive tropical forest loss to record high

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2025-05-21

Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed last year due in large measure to fires fuelled by climate change, researchers reported Wednesday. Tally it all up and the world lost 67,000 square kilometres (25,900 square miles) of precious primary tropical forest, an area double the size of Belgium or Taiwan. The loss was 80 percent higher than in 2023, according to th......

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