The rate of global tree cover loss has approximately doubled since 2001, to an annual loss approaching an area the size of Italy. (en)
Decline in arctic sea ice volume from 1979 to 2022 (en)
The period since 1950 has brought "the most rapid transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in the history of humankind". Almost one-third of the world's forests, and almost two-thirds of its grassland, have been lost to human agriculture—which now occupies almost half the world's habitable land. (en)
Decline in arctic sea ice extent from 1979 to 2022 (en)