<story><title>Tree cover loss – 2001-2020</title><url>https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomrod</author><text>That pink&amp;#x2F;blue distinction is really hard to visually nail down. Is the Southeast US gaining or losing coverage?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chroma</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s no way to compare them because the data sets are for different time periods. The losses are for 2001-2020 but the gains are only for 2001-2012.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know about specific regions, but forests worldwide are doing fine. In 1990, the world had 4.13 billion hectares of forest. In 2017 that number was 4 billion hectares.[1] That&amp;#x27;s not bad considering world population increased 40% in that time.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ourworldindata.org&amp;#x2F;forest-area#primary-vs-planted-forest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ourworldindata.org&amp;#x2F;forest-area#primary-vs-planted-fo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tree cover loss – 2001-2020</title><url>https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomrod</author><text>That pink&amp;#x2F;blue distinction is really hard to visually nail down. Is the Southeast US gaining or losing coverage?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwr-electronics</author><text>Click a place name &amp;gt; &amp;quot;analyze&amp;quot; pop-up button &amp;gt; bottom analysis tab.</text></comment>