{"id":6787,"date":"2015-09-16T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2015-09-13T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T22:54:49","slug":"422-trees-for-every-person-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/16\/422-trees-for-every-person-on-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"422 Trees For Every Person On The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/09\/04\/world\/trees-earth-three-trillion-study-feat\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The Earth has 3 trillion trees, study finds<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"metadata__byline__author\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/brandon-griggs\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Griggs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/121128071258-forest-germany-sunlight-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(CNN) &#8211; The good news: A new study finds that there are 3.04 trillion trees on Earth, 7\u00bd times more than previous estimates.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s more than 3,000,000,000,000. A whopping 12 zeros. Roughly 422 trees &#8212; a tiny forest! &#8212; for every person on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news? Researchers estimate that the total number of trees has plummeted by roughly 46% since the dawn of human civilization. And we&#8217;re mostly to blame.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers employed satellite imagery, forest inventories and supercomputer technologies to map tree populations worldwide at the square-kilometer level. The resulting study, led by scholars at Yale University, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature14967.epdf?\" target=\"_blank\">published this week in the journal Nature<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/09\/04\/world\/trees-earth-three-trillion-study-feat\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN The Earth has 3 trillion trees, study finds By Brandon Griggs (CNN) &#8211; The good news: A new study finds that there are 3.04 trillion trees on Earth, 7\u00bd times more than previous estimates. That&#8217;s more than 3,000,000,000,000. A whopping 12 zeros. Roughly 422 trees &#8212; a tiny forest! &#8212; for every person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}