October 31, 2005

Amazonian deforestation

An important, but depressing, paper appears in the 21 October 2005 issue of Science. (It just arrived in my mailbox today.) Greg Asne and colleagues report that selective logging in Brazilian forest has resulted in the loss of between 60% and 123% more forest than previously though.

Posted by Kent at October 31, 2005 1:16 PM | TrackBack