Dhaka, May 25 -- Mariana Oliveira, a forests expert at the World Resources Institute in Brazil, didn't mince words when describing how wildfires have ravaged her country."Last year, Brazil experienced its most intense and widespread drought in seven decades. Combined with high temperatures, this caused the fires to spread on an unprecedented scale throughout the country," she said, speaking with reporters. "This was quite a hard year for us."A new report from the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Watch platform and the University of Maryland in the US outlines just how hard it was - in Brazil and worldwide. Tree cover loss data show that record-breaking global temperatures contributed to a catastrophic surge in forest loss worldwi...