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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Summary: The loss of forests critical to protecting wildlife and slowing climate change accelerated during 2020, despite a worldwide pandemic that otherwise
led to a dramatic drop in greenhouse gas emissions, a global survey released Wednesday has found.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#111111"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: normal;">The
Earth saw nearly 100,000 square miles of lost tree cover last year — an area roughly the size of Colorado — according to the satellite-based survey by </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.globalforestwatch.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color: rgb(44, 108, 180); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Global
Forest Watch</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: normal;">. The change represents nearly 7 percent more trees lost than in 2019.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">T</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">he
top 5 countries in terms of forest lost between 2019 and 2020, in order:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Russia, Brazil, Australia, US, Canada.</span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Link to article: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/31/climate-change-deforestation/?utm_campaign=wp_evening_edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_evening&fbclid=IwAR2M4fCS5XBYSDjYnfh8LkM09b4kvTlkIl0Tx4uMzlKp95mqg6N2oCimCOc</span></div>
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