RTCC: The Congo Basin will face disproportionately high levels of global warming by 2050 due to deforestation, researchers have warned.
Shrinking rainforest cover means the area will heat up by an additional 0.7C by mid-century, on top of the 1.4C increase from todays temperatures that rising global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to cause.
This is in addition to the 0.85C of warming that the world has already experienced since industrial times, when humans started burning fossil fuels at...