Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issue a Bleak Warning to Humanity
Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issue a Bleak Warning to Humanity
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Isn't earth doing a pretty good job? Rainforest no, but I thought global canapy cover was increasing. I know it is in us
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No never mind, we're still losing trees.
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In the US and other post industrialized nations where land is more valuable for other uses than agriculture, sure.
However the deforestation in the amazon probably eats most of that up.
Cutting trees down for wood isn't the worst of it though, the first half of the 21st century will be categorized by climate change scientists as the period where earth's boreal forests burned away.
The amount of boreal foresl acreage burned in the last two decades is staggering and is accelerating to put it mildly.
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