Substantial and increasing global losses of timber-producing forest due to wildfires

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience took a closer look at the impact that high-severity wildfires have had on the $1.5 trillion-a-year timber industry, combining global maps of logging activity and stand-replacing wildfires to assess how much timber-producing forest has been lost to wildfires this century, and quantifying spatio-temporal changes in annual area lost.

Substantial and increasing global losses of timber-producing forest due to wildfires

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