World lost more than one football pitch of forest every second in 2017 adding up to area equivalent to whole of Italy over year. Global deforestation is on upward trend, jeopardising efforts to tackle climate change and massive decline in wildlife. • r/worldnews

Watching the trees die here in California has been painful. We lost most of them in the drought, but they are still dying at an alarming rate.

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