LA Times: The first fine-scale mapping of global forest cover shows the rate of forest loss in the tropics has increased over the past 12 years.
The use of remote sensing satellite data to chronicle changes in global land cover is not new. But in a paper published online this week in the journal Science, researchers provide an exceptionally detailed accounting of gains and loses in global forest cover from 2000 to 2012.
Matthew Hansen, a geographical sciences professor at the University of Maryland,...