Tag: forests

• Desert, forest, ice: the world in 1900 and now

  

  In 1900 farms covered 19% of the world’s ice-free land. Today they cover 37%. Two maps from HYDE 3.3 show where the new fields and pastures came from, which forests went, and where the trees came back.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  data visualisation, deforestation, farming, forests, history, HYDE, land use, maps