Good News: Planet Earth Covered In Much More Forest Than Thought | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)

Good News: Planet Earth Covered In Much More Forest Than Thought | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF):
An area of forest more than half the size of Australia has been discovered, dotted across several continents. 
The amount discovered is equivalent to 60 per cent of the size of Australia and has increased the estimate of global forest coverage by 10 per cent.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide are among the team led by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to have uncovered the 467 million hectares of previously unreported forests and woodlands.
The forests have been identified in drylands in the Sahara desert, around the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central India, coastal Australia, western South America, north-east Brazil, northern Colombia and Venezuela and northern parts of Canada and Russia....

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