MEXICO: With the growth of the world’s population and continuing deforestation, trees have become increasingly viewed as a valuable global asset. And on Wednesday, a surprising study published in Nature found that the Earth has more trees than previously thought.
As The Washington Post Chris Mooney reported, the study revealed that there are 422 trees for every person on Earth. That’s 3.04 trillion trees, or eight times more than previously estimated.
What that means, according to a conservation biologist interviewed by Mooney, is that there are not more forests but more trees in them and more importantly it doesn’t change our understanding of the rates of deforestation.
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