The World Lost a Nebraska-Sized Chunk of Forest in 2015

Yale e360
Jul 26, 2017, 12:09 pm168 pts
The world lost nearly 49 million acres of forest in 2015 to logging, wildfires, palm oil plantations, and other development activity, according to new data by the conservation group Global Forest Watch. That is equal to an area roughly the size of Nebraska, Climate Central reported . Read more on E360 →

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