Jakarta Post: Indonesia has the fastest rate of deforestation in the past 12 years, according to a new global map on deforestation.
A team of researchers from 15 universities -- led by the University of Maryland and assisted by Google and NASA -- has created the first high-resolution global map on Google Earth that maps forest cover.
In a study that was published in the journal Science on Thursday, the researchers reported a global loss of 2.3 million square kilometers of forest between 2000 and 2012 and...