NEW YORK: A team of 38 scientists have found that Earth has about 3.04 trillion trees. This is much more than the earlier estimate of 400 billion. This makes 422 trees per person on our planet. But the study also adds that this is 46 per cent less as compared to what Earth had before deforestation began. The process has only accelerated ever since it started bringing down the number of trees Earth has today.
The US had 319 million people in 2014, but 228 billion trees, which makes it 716 trees per person.
Thomas Crowther, a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies who is the lead author on the research, said, “We can now say that there are less trees than at any point in human civilization.”
“Since the spread of human influence, we’ve reduced the number almost by half, which is an astronomical thing,” he added.
Another major consequence that takes place due to deforestation in climate change. Deforestation is considered to be one of the contributing factors to global climate change, says Michael Daley, associate professor of environmental science at Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts.
About 15.3 billion trees are lost every year due to various reasons, however five billion of those may grow back each year but it still leads to a net loss of 10 billion annually.
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