Tropical forest the size of England destroyed in 2018, satellite data reveals

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The pace of the loss is staggering - the equivalent of 30 football fields disappearing every minute of every day in 2018

Rainforests are the planet's richest repository of wildlife and a critical sponge for soaking up planet-heating carbon dioxide (CO2).

Global forest loss peaked in 2016, fuelled in part by El Nino weather conditions and uncontrolled fires in Brazil and Indonesia....The main drivers are the livestock industry and large-scale commodity agriculture - palm oil in Asia and Africa, soy beans and biofuel crops in South America.

Globally, forests absorb about 30 per cent of manmade greenhouse gas emissions, just over 11 billion tonnes of CO2 a year....Burning or clear-cutting vast tracts of tropical forest not only releases carbon into the atmosphere, it reduces the size of the sponge that can absorb CO2.