A new map from the University of Maryland is helping viewers understand the scope of deforestation across the globe
A team at the university collected data on deforestation from 2000 to 2012, and the resulting map tracks forest lost and gained in those 12 years. The map, below, shows the extent of forests across the world with green markings and notes the areas that have lost forest in red.
Overall, the data shows that the planet has lost 888,000 square miles of forest and gained 309,000 square miles of new forest. The world’s net loss of more than 500,000 square miles is about size of Alaska, Smithsonian Magazine calculates. Read more…
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