https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66013854 'According to the new data, gathered by the University of Maryland, the tropics lost 10% more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021, with just over 4m hectares (nearly 16,000 sq miles) felled or burned in total. This released an amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to the annual fossil fuel emissions of India... ...Commodity agriculture is the main driver, according to researchers. Soybean expansion has resulted in nearly a million hectares of deforestation in Bolivia since the turn of the century.' Boycott soy. (no, I'm not trying to say he's an obnoxious Yorkshire cricketer!) | |