US losing trees faster than any other country

San Francisco took the required steps. Maybe the rest of the United States should have a tree census too! The country is losing trees faster than any around the globe. Between the years 2000 and 2005, the US has lost a larger area of forest land and trees than any other country. It is one of the seven most heavily deforested nations around.

The United States has lost around 46,000 square miles of forest area in those five years. That’s an area as big as Pennsylvania itself! The number is sure to have increased in the last five years too. Globally, our planet has lost around 400,000 square miles of forest cover. It’s about time we wake up and start planting more trees taken that their number is fast depleting.

[USA Today]