Future of the Environment

Chart of the day: What if deforestation were a country?

Aerial view shows farmland next to the Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso state August 9, 2005. The Brazilian government announced the latest data on deforestation of the Amazon Basin, with a total of 26,130 square km (10,089 square miles) of rainforest destroyed, equivalent to more than nine football fields every minute, during the 12-month period ending in August, 2004. The Amazon is home to up to 30 percent of the planet's animal and plant species. REUTERS/Bruno Domingos  BD/KS   also see GF1DVXADCRAA - RP6DRMUPZHAB

Deforestation has a huge impact on the volume of CO2 released into the atmosphere. Image: REUTERS/Bruno Domingos

John McKenna
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