Deforestation in the world's largest rainforest hit a 12-year annual high in 2020, with 2.7 million acres destroyed and with carbon emissions reaching 0.52 billion metric tonnes.
Smoke from a fire rises into the air as trees burn amongst vegetation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas state in early August.
The forest's carbon emissions amounted to 0.44 billion metric tonnes in 2019 and 0.52 billion metric tonnes in 2020, compared to an annual average of 0.24 billion metric tonnes from 2010-2018, according to the INPE study published in Nature magazine.
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