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Reuters: Satellite images suggest tropical forests from the Amazon to the Philippines are disappearing at a far more rapid pace than previously thought, a University of Maryland team of forest researchers say.
The annual rate of deforestation from 1990 to 2010 was 62 percent higher than in the previous decade, and higher than previous estimates, according to a study carried out of satellite maps covering 80 percent of the world’s tropical forests.
The new study questions the United Nations Food and......
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Satellite data suggests forest loss is accelerating
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 3rd, 2016
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