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Tag: forests

  • Seeing the Wood

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    From the Economist:  Seeing the Wood A new way of counting trees finds more of them than was thought THE clearing of forests for agriculture or logging is progressing at a worrisome rate around the world. But that is not the whole story. A new study shows that, in richer countries at least, many more…

  • Space maps of forests from 1990s could aid climate

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    From Reuters:  Space maps of forests from 1990s could aid climate NAIROBI (Reuters) – Photographs taken from space can track deforestation in developing nations and could be used along with cash incentives to safeguard trees and combat global warming, experts say. Some developing nations, such as Papua New Guinea and Bolivia, want November 6-17 U.N.…