1 Million Mileage Square Forest No Over 5 Years

27.04.2010 Radikal

Researchers said that forests with oxygen supply in the world are 3 percent smaller in the last 5 years.

[[T]4]ROMA- A group of scientists from South Dakota and Syracuse Universities have determined that the forests in the world shrink 1 million kilometers from 2000 to 2005. [

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Using scientists in research published in the Pnas magazine reviewed images taken by different satellites in these years, using a mathematical system that allows them to evaluate changes in the forest surface.

According to the research, the forestry areas in the world in this time were less than 1 million 11 thousand square kilometers. Brazil 165 thousand square kilometers of the forest at the beginning of the list of the most losing countries, followed him in Canada with 160 thousand square kilometers. North America, Asia and South America, which is at the beginning of the list on the basis of the continents.

The researchers who pointed out how much of this research method does not have due to human error for natural reasons, nevertheless, that such a large loss is alarming.

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