By Angela Dewan, CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/world/forest-loss-deforestation-fire-wri-climate-intl/index.html

Updated 5:02 AM EDT, Thu April 28, 2022

A boat speeding on the Jurura river in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Forest on March 15, 2020. The greatest tropical forest lost last year was in Brazil.Florence Goisnard/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN—

The area of tropical forest destroyed in 2021 was enough to cover the entire island of Cuba, and sent morecarbon dioxide into the atmosphere as Indiadoes in an entire year from burning fossil fuels, according to an analysis published Thursday.

Some 11.1 million hectares (around 43,000 square miles) of forest was destroyed, predominantly by logging as well as fires, the analysis by the World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch and the University of Maryland found. Some ofthose fires were deliberately litto clear land and many were exacerbated by climate change.

Tropical primary forest lossWorld Resources Institute

The loss was less severe…