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Deforestation

New FAO deforestation survey: Planet lost 10 hectares of forest per minute over 15-year period

New FAO deforestation survey: Planet lost 10 hectares of forest per minute over 15-year period

Thursday, December 1, 2011Friday, March 4, 2022

The world’s deforestation rate has accelerated to 6.4 million hectares a year, a new UN survey showed on Wednesday, but Asia showed net gains in forest land-use largely due to extensive planting in China. A new, satellite-based survey released by the UN Food and

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