On World Rainforest Day, the world confronts an unprecedented wave of tropical forest loss If tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth, then 2024 was a year of respiratory failure. Fires, fueled by climate extremes and human recklessness, tore through vast stretches of forest at an u...

Nearly half of all tropical primary forest loss in 2024 was fire. Not farming. Not logging. Fire. That’s more than double the usual. Forests are burning, and we're still debating targets. #RainforestDay #ClimateCrisis #Drought #PoliticalUnwillingness #EconomicGreed #Restoration #FireGovernance