THE AMAZON Rainforest is being destroyed at a rapid rate, losing 4,281 square miles in the year from August 2019 to July 2020 - a 9.5 percent rise on the year before.

Like the Amazon, the Congo Basin rainforest is turning from carbon “sink” to source, new study says Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

Researchers have already documented a reduction in carbon uptake in the Amazon rainforest. In a 2015 paper also published in Nature, scientists found that intact Amazon jungle absorbed 30% less ...

Between 2001 and 2018 Congo lost 13m hectares of tree cover (around 6% of the entire rainforest), an area almost twice the size of Ireland. The charcoal trade is partly to blame. Most of Congo’s ...

Threats from logging and mining. Spread over six countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cameroon, the rainforest is home to more than 75 million people and 10,000 tropical ...