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Humans damaging wild forests at "alarming" rate, maps show
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world's undisturbed forests are being degraded at an "alarming speed", researchers said on Thursday, as they released new analysis showing an area three times the size of Germany was affected by logging and infrastructure development in the last 13 years. Using satellite technology and advanced techniques, they found that more than 104 million hectares of intact forest landscapes were degraded between 2000 and 2013 - around 8 percent of the global total. "We can clearly see that business...
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