Satellite alerts seen helping fight deforestation in Africa
SONIA ELKS A system using satellite data to send free alerts when trees are destroyed has been linked to a significant drop in forest losses in Africa, researchers and academics said on Monday. Deforestation dropped by an average of 18% across nine central African countries after the alerts were introduced, found a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. "This is really a small revolution," said study lead Fanny Moffette, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Now that we know subscribers of alerts can have an effect on deforestation, there's potential ways in which our work can…