The world has lost 2 Texases worth of forest over the last 25 years

Deforestation in northern Brazil
(Image credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

Bad news: A new United Nations report reveals that, in the last 25 years, the world has lost a whopping 500,000 square miles of forest — the equivalent of the state of Texas twice over, and nearly the size of South Africa.

The good news: That same report notes that there is an "encouraging" slowing in the rates of deforestation.

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