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Map shows deforestation in Indonesia is worlds fastest
2013-11-16 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Indonesia has the fastest rate of deforestation in the past 12 years, according to a new global map on deforestation. A team of researchers from 15 universities -- led by the University of Maryland and assisted by Google and NASA -- has created the first high-resolution global map on Google Earth that maps forest cover. In a study that was published in the journal Science on Thursday, the researchers reported a global loss of 2.3 million square kilometers of forest between 2000 and 2012 and...
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