{"id":2344,"date":"2026-01-08T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/tiny-patches-of-deforestation-drive-tropical-carbon-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:30:00","slug":"tiny-patches-of-deforestation-drive-tropical-carbon-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/tiny-patches-of-deforestation-drive-tropical-carbon-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny patches of deforestation drive tropical carbon loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/12\/small_clearing_in_tropical_forest\/27023933-1-eng-GB\/Small_clearing_in_tropical_forest_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Small clearing in tropical forest\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Often called Earth\u2019s green lungs, tropical forests pull down massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, release oxygen and help regulate the global climate. While the threat of large-scale deforestation is well known, new findings reveal a surprising culprit \u2013 the clearance of small areas of forest accounts for more than half of net carbon losses across the Tropics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often called Earth\u2019s green lungs, tropical forests pull down massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, release oxygen and help regulate the global climate. While the threat of large-scale deforestation is well known, new findings reveal a surprising culprit \u2013 the clearance of small areas of forest accounts for more than half of net [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}