The first high-resolution global map of changes in forest cover over the last 12 years shows which parts of the world are losing forests at an alarming rate. Using Landsat satellite images of Earth's surface provided by the U.S. Geological Survey combined with cloud computing support from Google, researchers mapped global tree cover, loss, and gain between 2000 and 2012.
On this map showing a 12-year record of global forest change, green shows forest cover (no change), black shows non-forest, red means forest loss, blue means forest gain, and magenta shows regrowth (both loss and gain). Read more: www.businessinsider.com
