内容摘要：She engaged with more than 2,000 women to find out what prevented them from getting on the start line of races alongside men.

She engaged with more than 2,000 women to find out what prevented them from getting on the start line of races alongside men.

Many fires are started deliberately to clear land for agriculture, making it difficult to disentangle the two.But the drought provided ideal conditions for fires to spread out of control, with Brazil and Bolivia most badly affected.

While only a single year, it fits the expected pattern of more intense tropical fires in a warming world."I think we are in a new phase, where it's not just the clearing for agriculture that's the main driver," said Rod Taylor of the World Resources Institute (WRI), which is also behind the latest report."Now we have this new amplifying effect, which is a real climate change feedback loop, where fires are just much more intense and much more ferocious than they've ever been."

In total, the record loss of the world's old-growth (primary) tropical forests released 3.1 billion tonnes of planet-warming gases, the researchers estimate.That's roughly the same as the emissions of the European Union.

Countries in South East Asia, however, bucked the global trend.

The area of primary forest loss in Indonesia fell by 11% compared to 2023, for example, despite drought conditions.Follow the twists and turns of Trump's second term with North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher's weekly

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