Satellite data suggests forest loss is accelerating

2 March 2015
Reuters
Forest cover / Forests and forestry / Land
Do-Hyung Kim / Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) / Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) / Geophysical Research Letters / University of Maryland / University of Melbourne

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. …

Tropical Asia showed the second largest increase in deforestation with 0.8 million hectares (about 3,100 square miles or 8,000 square kilometers) lost per year, led by countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines. …

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