The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics

Visit Climate Progress

Tropical Rain Forests: Bad to Worse

Posted on July 01, 2008

[Another post by Ken Levenson.]Pushed from center stage by the expected record arctic ice and permafrost melt, tropical rain forest destruction has been elbowing its way back through the smoke and into view.Papua New Guinea's rain forests disappearing faster than thought is one such look:Previously, the forest loss was estimated at 139,000 hectares per year between 1990 and 2005. But now?Using satellite images to reveal changes in forest cover between 1972 and 2002 Papua New Guinea (PNG) lost more than 5 million hectares of forest over the past three decades Worse, deforestation rates may...

Original article link


malaysia , study