Tropics lost 12.2 million hectares of tree cover in 2020, largely due to agriculture

Plants and soil are carbon sinks, sucking up roughly a third of all the carbon pollution humans produce annually.

from http://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/tropics-lost-12-2-million-hectares-of-tree-cover-in-2020-largely-due-to-agriculture-9485911.html