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A New Map Tells Natural Forests from Plantations

On 22 October 2026, a global map called Forest Typology (ForTy) 2020 was released. Google DeepMind, Google Research, and the World Resources Institute built it. The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis also worked on it. The map splits the world's land into 10-by-10-meter areas. It sorts each square into six groups. These are based on UN Food and Agriculture…

Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Google DeepMind. Read the original for the full report.