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Family of 5 Primary Forests: A Snapshot What Remains
2015-07-23 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Heres a fact that should be disturbing to anyone concerned about our imperiled forests: The pace of deforestation has accelerated so rapidly over the past 200 years that today our planet harbors only one-quarter of its original old-growth forest--i.e., forest that has never been logged or cleared. Using detailed satellite imagery and geographic information system technology, scientists have produced moment-in-time snapshots of these remaining forested regions. The pictures are not pretty....
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