Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issue a Bleak Warning to Humanity (www.sciencealert.com)

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[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

Not a particularly interesting article. Just more of the familiar story: "we need more forests, they are good for us" and "a single species going extinct can eventually collapse an entire eco system". It is a truthful article though and I guess that's worth something these days.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

We won't understand even if we get to the point of wearing supplemental oxygen to stay alive.

[-] gu3miles@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Isn't earth doing a pretty good job? Rainforest no, but I thought global canapy cover was increasing. I know it is in us

[-] gu3miles@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

No never mind, we're still losing trees.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the US and other post industrialized nations where land is more valuable for other uses than agriculture, sure.

However the deforestation in the amazon probably eats most of that up.

Cutting trees down for wood isn't the worst of it though, the first half of the 21st century will be categorized by climate change scientists as the period where earth's boreal forests burned away.

The amount of boreal foresl acreage burned in the last two decades is staggering and is accelerating to put it mildly.

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