Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Boreal Forest Losing the Most Ground

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Boreal Forest Losing the Most Ground
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) concludes that over a million square kilometers of forest were lost around the world between 2000 and 2005, and that both the U.S. and Canada had higher percentages of forest losses than even Brazil (a country long notorious for deforestation). How does it break down?

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