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via: Reuters Amazonia Cattle Pastures in Deforested Amazon Now the Size of Iceland Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % Amazon Deforestation Slows Last Year, But 8,147 Square Kilometers Still Chopped Down

Not exact matches

Although Madagascar has set aside tens of thousands of square kilometers for national parks and reserves, illegal logging is still rampant (SN Online: 1/16/15).

The destruction of Amazon rainforest peaked in the late 1980s but still remains at roughly 17,000 square kilometers per year.

Paulo Moutinho, a senior climate researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasilia, says 2030 is «too late» to stop deforestation, and that the current level of 5000 square kilometers being cleared per year is still too high to preserve ecosystem services.

Each OCO - 2 reading will sample a column of the atmosphere above roughly 3 square kilometers of Earth's surface — much smaller than the 85 - square - kilometer footprint of a similar Japanese probe, the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), which launched in 2009 and is still operating.

Today, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that the annual summer retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occurs.

13 (Danny Bloom) It's actually a very interesting horse race with this year's ice extent still two thirds of a million square kilometers more than last year at this same time.

Researchers are still hunting for plausible reasons why the area of Antarctic sea ice for May was an above - average 4.64 million square miles (12.03 million square kilometers), according to the NSIDC, despite the multi-year overall increase in global surface temperatures.

It should be noted that this 2009 extent would still be well below the average for 1979 — 2000 of 6.7 million square kilometers.

We know that the heavily jungled areas of New Guinea supported and still support population densities of 1 person per square kilometer in the most difficult environments of the lowlands and 20 people per square mile in the less difficult highlands.

D. Patterson — Then remember the New World has more than 42 million square kilometers of territory, and even at the bragain basement population density rates, the Old World would still have had tens of millions of people whenever those populations were not already reduced some 90 % and more by catastrophes such as the New World and Old World diseases.

Less than 30 years ago, there would still be 7 million square kilometers or 2.5 million square miles of ice left at the end of an Arctic summer.

While approximately 1.5 million square kilometers of suitable habitat still remain in Asia -LRB-[9], Figure 1), tigers today are distributed heterogeneously [7], [13] and, except in the Russian Far East, are now restricted to small pockets, mostly in protected areas.

Though it still has to be approved by member states, the agreement would see over 2 million square kilometers of the Ross Sea set aside, with no fishing in over half of it.