New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019
Frontiers
MARCH 15, 2022
The study shows that one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019 was due to fires, which is higher than previous estimates. Even I, as a geographer, was terrified reading all the headlines that seemed to imply that the last patch of the Amazonian rainforest was on fire, which was not true.”. Global forest fires 2001-2019 map.
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