Scientists surprised: on the Earth there are 3 trillion trees. But every year they are felled 15 billion – Quotidiano.net

6 September 2015

The discovery made him a team of Yale, and scholars themselves surprised by the unexpected number. But there are also bad news: every year 15 billion trees are cut down: the world’s forests have halved since the beginning of civilization

New York, September 6, 2015 – How many trees there are on Earth? From the University of Yale comes the answer: There are approximately 3 trillion trees, about 422 for each member of the human race , and eight times more than previously estimated.

The surprising discovery was made by a team of scholars paes 15 , led by experts from the prestigious Yale University, which used a combination of old-style counts and high-tech devices for ‘ satellite image processing, as well as a supercomputer to produce the first comprehensive census of the trees.

“I do not know what I expected, but certainly I was surprised to find that she was talking about trillions” , said the coordinator of the study Thomas Crowther of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

But, according to the study published by the scientific journal Nature, the coverage of the world’s forests was approximately halved since the beginning of human civilization. The pace of deforestation has come now to 15 billion trees a year.