
That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate. Olivia Rosane - June 27, 2018 Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Neil Palmer, CIAT / CC BY 2.0 New University of Maryland data published by Global Forest Watch (GFW) Wednesday revealed 2017 as the