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Les "poumons de la planète" étouffent. Au lieu d’absorber les gaz qui réchauffent le climat, les forêts tropicales du monde commencent à les libérer. Via Hubert MESSMER 
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Deforestation has long been cited as a problem, but a lack of accessible data meant that the general public had to take someone's word for the figures. As a result, its threat always seemed more abstract and nebulous than, say, climate change or rising sea levels.
Until now: Google has unveiled its Global Forest Watch, an online tool that monitors deforestation around the world in near-real time. Via Lauren Moss
Antonio Lopez's curator insight,
February 28, 2014 6:05 AM
One role of media should be to act like those speed monitors we see that tell us how fast we are going. Hopefully a program like Google's Global Forest Watch can help us monitor deforestation in real time. 
thinking peasant's curator insight,
February 28, 2014 6:51 AM
maybe they have not gone over to the dark side for good? 
Daniel LaLiberte's comment,
March 10, 2014 11:59 AM
Another writeup at: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26287137
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Trois sociétés indonésiennes impliquées dans les immenses feux de forêts qui ont ravagé l'Indonésie ces derniers mois ont été sanctionnées, et 56 autres pourraient également être interdites d'activité dans le cadre de mesures sans précédent, ont indiqué mardi les autorités locales.
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