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Global deforestation decreasing. Or is it?

2016-01-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ensia: It started, as many things do, with a rumor. In 2013 Matt Finer, a researcher with the Amazon Conservation Association, heard from locals that someone was cutting down rainforest deep in the Peruvian Amazon, far from prying eyes. So Finer and colleagues did something that would have been unheard of 10 years before: Using high resolution satellite imagery, they found a couple hectares of felled trees in a seemingly impenetrable sea of forest. You could just see this little smidge of forest loss...

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