Drylands greener with forests than previously thought

Mongabay
May 12, 2017, 7:49 am117 ptsTrending
New research has, for the first time, made use of very high resolution images of Earth’s drylands, revealing that they hold a much larger portion of the world’s forests than previously thought. Employing a new method only possible because of the fine-grained quality of these images and the frequency at…

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