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According to a press release from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the study's scientists used satellite images to identify millions of small patches of land around the globe where tree cover increased over time without the assistance of humans. More than half of the area with strong potential for regrowth was located in Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, China, and Colombia.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/satellite-imagery-identifies-strange-phenomenon-104532568.html

Remember when the rain forest was going to disappear, never to return?

Yeah, that's never going to happen.

Don't you think that if I were wrong that I would know it? 

 

 

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The article says there is potential for forest regrowth. That does not mean it's going to happen anytime soon.

The authors also created a digital map of the global tropics that includes estimated potentials for regrowth on areas of land, with each pixel indicating a 30-by-30-square-meter segment.

"Our goal and our hope is that this is used democratically by local people, organizations, and localities from the county level all the way up to the national level, to advocate for where restoration should happen," said the study's second author, Matthew Fagan, according to UMBC. "The people who live there should be in charge of what happens there — where and how to restore really depends on local conditions."
 
 
 
 
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