Tropical forest loss hit new heights in 2024; fire a major driver in Latin America

Mongabay
May 21, 2025, 6:02 pm183 ptsTrendingTop
Tropical forest loss skyrocketed in 2024, with vast swaths of primary forest consumed by fire, according to new satellite data from the University of Maryland’s Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory, made available on World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Global Forest Watch (GFW) platform. The…

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Tropical forest loss hit new heights in 2024; fire a major driver in Latin America

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