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Groundbreaking Mapping Project Depicts Forest Change Around the Globe
2013-11-15 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Scientists from Google, U.S. universities, and federal agencies have for the first time produced a high-resolution global map showing in striking detail the extent of deforestation across the globe. The project which relied heavily on expertise from the computing center Google Earth Engine documents a loss of 888,000 square miles of forest between 2000 and 2012, along with a gain of 309,000 square miles of new forest. The rate of deforestation is equal to losing 68,000 soccer fields of forest...
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