The Amazon is losing about 3 football fields' worth of rainforest per minute

The Amazon has been ravaged by man-made wildfires over the last few weeks, and it is losing the equivalent of three football fields per minute, according to data from Brazilian satellites.

In July, the world's largest rainforest lost 519 square miles (1,345 square kilometers) of trees, setting a new record for the most deforestation that the Amazon experienced in a single month, The Guardian reported. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reported an 80% increase in wildfires, with a total of 72,843 incidents this year, according to National Geographic.

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