Earth Lost Half Its Trees to Humans

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - 14:30 in Earth & Climate

A new global census of all the trees on Earth estimates that more than 3 trillion call this "pale blue dot" home. But the total number of trees on the planet has dropped by almost 50 percent since human civilization began.

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