Study Tracks Worldwide Forest Loss, Boreal See Greatest Decline

Despite ongoing threats to rain forests in the Amazon and Congo river basins, researchers studying the latest satellite data say that the greatest loss in forest cover from 2000 to 2005 wasn’t in rain forests, but in boreal forests in places like North America. Their new study in PNAS found that losses were greatest in boreal forests, followed by humid tropical, dry tropical and temperate forests. read more

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