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via Earth Engine Partners , we have the University of Maryland's Department of Geographical Sciences  bringing us this excellent interactive take on global forest change . Short version - its frightening. Slightly longer version Quantification of global forest change has been lacking despite the recognized importance of forest ecosystem services. In this study, Earth observation satellite data were used to map global forest loss (2.3 million square kilometers) and gain (0.8 million square kilometers) from 2000 to 2012 at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. The tropics were the only climate domain to exhibit a trend, with forest loss increasing by 2101 square kilometers per year. Brazil’s well-documented reduction in deforestation was offset by increasing forest loss in Indonesia, Malaysia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Zambia, Angola, and elsewhere. Intensive forestry practiced within subtropical forests resulted in the highest rates of forest change globally. Boreal forest loss due la...

New Scientist has put together one of the best visualizations on Global Warming that I've seen You really should play around with this.  You can Pick a 20 year period to look at global trends in that period - from 1893 to 2012 Pick a location to look at the specific trend in that location Drill down into a specific area There is a whole lot more - it really packs a ton of information into a clear and intuitive interface.   (The above is just a screen grab.  Go to the original for the Visualization )  From the writeup on the site This interactive graphic displays results from a global analysis of surface temperatures from 1880 to the present called   GISTEMP , produced by a team at NASA’s   Goddard Institute for Space Studies   in New York City. The graphs and maps all show changes relative to average temperatures for the three decades from 1951 to 1980, the earliest period for which there was sufficiently good coverage for comparis...