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Iceland grows forests for first time in 1,000 years

Geoff Riley

2nd July 2018

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A positive story here of the challenges and opportunities that come with a focused strategy of reforestation in Iceland. This in the week when we discovered that satellite data shows the world has lost more than one football pitch of forest every second in 2017, adding up to an area equivalent to the whole of Italy over the year.

Iceland Is Growing New Forests for the First Time in 1,000 Years
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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