Report: Deforestation, linked to pandemics, increased in 2019
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
Deforestation of tropical old-growth forests increased last year, according to new satellite data unveiled Tuesday, wiping out acreage roughly the size of Switzerland in a period when experts are raising alarms about the transmission of a variety of diseases, including the novel coronavirus, that jump between animals and humans.