Scientists were surprised when they counted the number of trees in Russia and the rest of the world – CPV.ru

 
 

Today, on the surface of our planet, say the staff at Yale University (USA), grows about three trillion trees, 640 billion of which is grown in Russia.

The US scientists decided to count the trees in the world, at the request of students from «Plant for the Planet », which are supported by the UNPO try using tree planting smooth over global warming. Activists of the initiative wanted to find out whether they have to fill up the number of trees on the planet. Scientists have responded to the request of students and analyzed on a supercomputer data from 500 thousand corners of the Earth, as well as satellite images of forests.

The results of counting surprised the researchers themselves, who initially thought that the world should be no more than 400 billion trees . But in fact, is now on the planet grows three trillion trees, most of which are located in ten countries.

The absolute leader of this unusual rating was Russia, where it grows 640 billion trees, most part of which feels good in the Far East and Siberia. Brazil and Canada share this list of second or third place, as in these countries grows by 300 billion trees. In addition, the “top ten” of the rich forests turned: the US, China, Congo, Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, and Mexico.

identified by scientists and the countries with the fewest trees. Then it became the undisputed leader of Bahrain, on the territory of which the researchers counted only three thousand trees. Slightly better situation with the trees in Qatar, Monaco, the Cocos Islands, Gibraltar and the uninhabited Paracel Islands.

However, to dwell on just counting trees, American scientists were not as wanted to find out how it fell forests of our planet the onset of her first centers of civilization.

This figure is terrified of researchers, as it turned out that the man behind its existence managed to destroy 46% of the trees, which are necessary to sustain life on our planet, as they are virtually inexhaustible source of hydrocarbons, supports cycling of nutrients in nature and it provides the same person with water and air. Moreover, the researchers argue that the destruction of forests is at an alarming rate in our days when the year is cut down to 15 billion trees.

Therefore, the study’s authors called on humanity to a reasonable approach using the “inexhaustible” natural resources of our planet, because of the existence of civilization half the trees have been destroyed, today an extremely negative impact on the climate and the health of the people themselves. Therefore, a person needs to make every effort to achieve a reduction of the current rate of deforestation is now the trees and eventually restore the forests of the earth.