Felling of tropical trees has soared, satellite shows, not slowed as UN study found
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 16:00
in Earth & Climate
The rate at which tropical forests were cut, burned or otherwise lost from the 1990s through the 2000s accelerated by 62 percent, according to a new study which dramatically reverses a previous estimate of a 25 percent slowdown over the same period.