The Amazon rainforest has suffered devastating fires in the last two years, leading to the destruction of over 900,000 hectares of vegetation. In addition, humans have whitewashed another 1,202 square km (464 square miles) of forest in Brazil during the first few months of 2020. But as per a new report, the situation would be worse in the coming years and the lungs of this blue planet, Amazon rain forest, will be destroyed by 2064.
In the report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development geologist Robert Toovey Walker from the University of Florida summarized that due to deforestation and prolonged droughts from climate change, almost 2.3 million square miles of rainforest will be wiped within the next few decades.