The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Mongabay
Apr 25, 2019, 1:14 am196 pts
At first glance, the news seems good: tropical deforestation declined for the second year in a row, according to new satellite data. But digging in a little deeper reveals a more complicated, grimmer reality. The data, released today by World Resources Institute on its forest monitoring platform Global Forest…

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