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Plants and soil are carbon sinks, sucking up roughly a third of all the carbon pollution humans produce annually. Across the tropics, the study registered the destruction in 2020 of 4.2 million hectares of primary forest — 12 percent higher than the year before. In total, the tropics lost 12.2 million hectares of tree cover — including forests and plantations …
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