Global deforestation: 10 hot spots on Google Earth – in pictures | Environment | theguardian.com

Global deforestation: 10 hot spots on Google Earth – in pictures | Environment | theguardian.com: "Global deforestation: 10 hot spots on Google Earth – in pictures
Earth has lost more than half a million square miles of forest between 2000 and 2012. Analysis of 650,000 satellite images, published in the journal Science, reveal the extent of loss and recovery – Brazil’s success in the Amazon is offset by deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Zambia and Angola. The colour-coded maps here show the changes: green is forest cover, red is lost forest, blue is forest gained and pink is forests both lost and gained in the period"

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