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A Slow-Down Dirty Shame
World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly |
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15 Nov 2005 |
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| A Slow-Down Dirty Shame World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly Good news! The world's forests are being destroyed at a slightly-slower-if-still-alarming rate. That's the chipper assessment of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's new report on global deforestation. It compared trends in 229 countries over the past five years with data from the 1990s, finding that on average, just over 18 ... |
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