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....