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Thursday, 3 September 2015

Three trillion trees

Apparently counting trees is really difficult.

""The previous estimate of trees in the world was 400 billion. The new estimate is three trillion large trees. There are so many margins of error in this study that the real number could be anything between the two - or even 10 times higher," he said."
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34134366

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