A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, with global warming and El Niño ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Tropical forest loss skyrocketed in 2024, with vast swaths of primary forest consumed by fire, according to ...

The world experienced unprecedented tropical rainforest destruction in 2024, primarily due to fires fueled by climate change, ...

The loss of tropical primary forests reached 6.7 million hectares in the year — nearly twice as much as in 2023 and an area nearly the size of Panama.

Massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for ...

The world lost 67,000 square kilometers of precious primary tropical forest last year, an area double the size of Belgium or ...

Of this, 22,008 hectares were lost due to non-forest drivers. That is the global trend too. For the first time in the records of GFW, fires and not agriculture were the leading cause of tropical ...

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

Fires emitted 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases, more than four times the emissions from all commercial air travel in 2023 ...