Other Added 136d ago 3 outlets

Global tropical forest loss declines 36% in 2025 from record 2024 levels

Satellite data shows tropical rainforest loss fell to approximately 43,000 sq km (4.3 million hectares) in 2025, down 36% from 2024's record highs, primarily due to Brazil's deforestation-reduction policies under President Lula da Silva. Scientists credit cooler La Niña conditions and government action in Brazil, Colombia, and Malaysia for the slowdown, but warn that the expected return of El Niño later in 2025 could increase forest fire risks and threaten recent progress.

Divergence score

3 outlets covered it, splitting into 3 framing camps across 2 bias groups.

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Reuters

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Widest split · the two outlets furthest apart, and who published first

Furthest apart on this story

BBC

Global forest loss slows but El Niño fires could threaten progress

climate risk forewarning · neutral

Al Jazeera

'Encouraging': Global rainforest loss slows in 2025 after record year

government action success · positive

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Al Jazeera+2.2 h
BBC+7.8 h

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The split, in one line

All three outlets confirm the 36% decline and attribute it to Brazil's policies, but BBC emphasizes climate risk as a potential threat, while Al Jazeera praises 'decisive government action' and frames fires as a 'dangerous new normal,' creating slightly different risk narratives around the same data.

How each outlet covered it

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Coverage clusters in the center and international press. Here is each take as it stands.

Center & international coverage

BBCBBCINTERNATIONAL136d ago

“Global forest loss slows but El Niño fires could threaten progress”

AJAl JazeeraINTERNATIONAL136d ago

“'Encouraging': Global rainforest loss slows in 2025 after record year”

RReutersCENTER136d ago

“Tropical forest loss eases in 2025 from record high”

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Other countries including Colombia and Malaysia also contributed to forest protection efforts

Source ·Named by BBC; implied broadly by Al Jazeera's focus on 'government action'

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