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Tropical Tree Cover Loss Accelerated Last Year, Satellite Analysis Shows

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    By Yale Environment 360Sep 3, 2015, 12:40 pm164 pts
    photo of Tropical Tree Cover Loss Accelerated Last Year, Satellite Analysis Shows imageMore than 45 million acres of trees were cut down last year — an area twice the size of Portugal — according to an analysis Enlarge Tropical tree cover loss by the University of Maryland and Google. Tropical nations lost more than half of that total — nearly 25 million acres of tree cover, an area roughly…
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