Agence France-Presse: The worldwide pace of deforestation has slowed down for the first time on record, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. On a total forest area of four billion hectares, the world lost 13 million hectares of forests per year between 2000 and 2010 – down from around 16 million in the 1990-2000 period, it said in a report. “For the first time, we are able to show that the rate of deforestation has decreased globally as a result of concerted efforts taken …