California-sized area of forest lost in just 14 years

Mongabay
Jan 12, 2021, 7:14 pm236 pts
An area of forest roughly the size of California was cleared across the tropics and subtropics between 2004 and 2017 largely for commercial agriculture, finds a new assessment published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The report, titled Deforestation Fronts: Drivers and Responses in a Changing World, looks at…

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