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Groundbreaking Mapping Project Depicts Forest Change Around the Globe
2013-11-15 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Scientists from Google, U.S. universities, and federal agencies have for the first time produced a high-resolution global map showing in striking detail the extent of deforestation across the globe. The project which relied heavily on expertise from the computing center Google Earth Engine documents a loss of 888,000 square miles of forest between 2000 and 2012, along with a gain of 309,000 square miles of new forest. The rate of deforestation is equal to losing 68,000 soccer fields of forest...
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High resolution global maps show increasing forest loss tropics
2013-11-15 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The first fine-scale mapping of global forest cover shows the rate of forest loss in the tropics has increased over the past 12 years. The use of remote sensing satellite data to chronicle changes in global land cover is not new. But in a paper published online this week in the journal Science, researchers provide an exceptionally detailed accounting of gains and loses in global forest cover from 2000 to 2012. Matthew Hansen, a geographical sciences professor at the University of Maryland,...
After the forest: Cameroon's Baka people fight for survival - video
2013-11-13 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With swaths of forest being cleared by loggers, Cameroon's indigenous Baka people explain how deforestation is affecting them. They say extreme poverty and discrimination have brought high levels of illiteracy, unemployment, alcoholism and teenage pregnancy and urgent action is needed to prevent their way of life from being destroyed
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3.5 million ha of Indonesian and Malaysian forest converted for palm oil in 20 years
2013-11-12 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Some 3.5 million hectares (8.7 million acres) of forest in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea was converted for oil palm plantations between 1990 and 2010, finds a comprehensive set of assessments released by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). The research, conducted by an international team of scientists from a range of institutions, is presented in a series of seven academic papers that estimate change in land use and greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm expansion in the...
Forest Misuse Costs Indonesia $7 Billion in Revenue, Report Says
2013-11-11 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Globe: Illegal logging and mismanagement of Indonesias forestry industry may have prevented more than $7 billion flowing to state coffers from 2007 to 2011, costing the government more than its health budget, Human Rights Watch said. In contrast, the Indonesian governments 2011 revenue from timber royalties and reforestation fees was $300 million, said Emily Harwell, the lead author of a report released by Human Rights Watch. This is a very conservative estimate, Harwell, a partner at Natural Capital...
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