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Global deforestation is decreasing—or is it? (Answer: we are still cutting down forests, in mass)

[via Quartz] It started, as many things do, with a rumor. In 2013 Matt Finer, a researcher with the Amazon Conservation Association, heard from locals that someone was cutting down rainforest deep in the Peruvian Amazon, far from prying eyes. So Finer and colleagues did something that would have been unheard of 10 years before:…

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