Satellite Study Calculates Earth's Tree Count

ENN
Sep 2, 2015, 2:47 pm26 pts
A new satellite study has calculated that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, around 422 trees for every person, although the number is believed to have dropped by 46 percent since the start of human civilisation. The Yale-led international research found the result of the tree count is around seven…

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