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China is Turning the Rainforest into Cheap Furniture for the U.S.
The second largest rainforest in the world — in Central Africa’s Congo Basin — is disappearing at an alarming rate, despite local laws against deforestation. A new study out of the University of California names China and the United States as the primary culprits. China more than doubled its wood imports from the Congo Basin between 2001 and 2015, the study found, and most of the cheap furniture it exported was headed for the United States.
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