Every minute in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, more than three football fields worth of forest is reportedly being destroyed.
The Guardian, citing government data, reports that the dense and sprawling jungle lost about 519 square miles so far in July, a third higher than the previous monthly record. With days remaining in the month, Brazil is on track to lose an area of rainforest larger than Greater London in July. The deforestation is monitored by a satellite system that began doing so in 2015.
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