Earth greening despite deforestation

By Albert van Dijk and Pep Canadell
Updated September 24 2015 - 4:42pm, first published April 5 2015 - 2:00am
Observations from space have shown the world overall is getting greener despite deforestation and drought. Photo: Carl Davies/CSIRO
Observations from space have shown the world overall is getting greener despite deforestation and drought. Photo: Carl Davies/CSIRO

WHILE the news coming out of forests is often dominated by deforestation and habitat loss, research published in Nature Climate Change shows that the world has actually got greener over the past decade.

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