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Tree loss slows, but covers area twice size of Portugal in 2014: study [1]

The rate at which trees were cut down slowed globally for a third year in a row in 2014, but tree loss still covered an area twice the size of Portugal, an environmental research group said.

Publication Date: 
03/09/2015
Planet Ark (Australia) [2]
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