Tropical forests may be vanishing even faster than previously thought
By Chris Mooney
There’s no other way to put it: Cutting down tropical forests is disastrous. The lush plant life in these areas sequesters huge amounts of carbon, pulling it out of the atmosphere to fuel plant growth. Chopping down a rainforest releases carbon back to the atmosphere, worsening global warming.
But at least this problem was supposed to be getting better — a little.

By Leonardo F. Freitas (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)