Climate crisis
The world's most vital forests are dying at twice the rate they did 35 years ago — study
“Tropical forests may soon become carbon sources instead of carbon sinks.”
Cast your mind back to your first-ever biology lessons and two fundamental facts you learned about our world: humans are animals and plants are alive. Like other living things, plants breathe — “inhaling” carbon dioxide and “exhaling” oxygen. They do this through photosynthesis, taking energy from sunlight and carbon dioxide and emitting oxygen. It’s just one reason of the myriad reasons why we need trees to sustain life on this planet.