Larger swaths of tropical forest being lost to commercial agriculture
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 12:22
in Earth & Climate
Larger patches of tropical forest are being cleared in recent years to make way for industrial-scale agriculture, a new study shows. Analysis of deforestation maps shows that roughly half of the increase in tropical forest loss from 2000 to 2012 was linked to the expansion of these large-scale activities. The trend is most pronounced in Southeast Asia and South America.