New Technology Needed To Monitor Rain Forest Destruction
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 02:28
in Earth & Climate
Human impact on tropical forest ecosystems has reached a "tsunami" stage, say scientists, and will require a new generation of sophisticated remote-sensing technology to monitor the changes. Roughly 1.4% of the world's tropical humid forests was deforested between 2000 and 2005, and that as of 2005 more than half of the forests contained 50% or less tree cover.
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