Scientists Use Google Earth and Crowdsourcing to Map Uncharted Forests

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By World Resources InstituteAug 6, 2017, 8:44 am266 pts
By Katie Fletcher, Tesfay Woldemariam and Fred Stolle No single person could ever hope to count the world's trees. But a crowd of them just counted the world's drylands forests—and, in the process, charted forests never before mapped , cumulatively adding up to an area equivalent in size to the Amazon…

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