The numbers are staggering and often hard to absorb.<\/p>\n
Close to 25 million square kilometres of tropical forest are spread across 75 countries on three continents. The trees in those forests store 225 to 250 billion tons of carbon.<\/p>\n
Each year, vast tracts of those trees are lost to development and agriculture\u2014about 90,000 square kilometres annually from 2000 to 2012. This deforestation releases nearly a billion tons<\/strong> of carbon dioxide into the air, between 15 to 20 percent of global emissions.<\/p>\n The real solution is to just STOP!\u00a0 But we can’t do that because everything would implode.\u00a0 But we’ve still got to stop and we’ve got to start stopping NOW.\u00a0 You can make a difference by consuming a bit less or everything and anything …<\/p>\n NASA Earth Observatory: Corridors for Carbon and Critters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The numbers are staggering and often hard to absorb. Close to 25 million square kilometres of tropical forest are spread across 75 countries on three continents. The trees in those forests store 225 to 250 billion tons of carbon. Each year, vast tracts of those trees are lost to development and agriculture\u2014about 90,000 square kilometres …
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