'Part App, Part Map' Tracks Amazon Forest Loss

By: Sonja Matanovic | 03/06/2013

"As the endangered Amazon forest faces tougher challenges – deforestation, forest fires, and mining and oil drilling, among them – there must be a way to track the destruction," writes Chelsea Diana of Reuters Alertnet. She points to Knight International Journalism Fellow Gustavo Faleiros' interactive map of the nine-country Amazon region, InfoAmazonia, as part of the solution.

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