Tag: Trees and forests

News / World - 7 years ago

Brazil records worst annual deforestation for a decade

Brazil has released its worst annual deforestation figures in a decade amid fears that the situation might worsen when the avowedly anti-environmentalist president-elect Jair Bolsonaro takes power. Between August 2017 and July 2018, 7,900sq kms were...

News / World - 8 years ago

US cities losing 36 million trees a year, researchers find

Cities in the United States are increasingly seeing concrete in place of greenery as urban areas lose an estimated 36m trees annually, according to a study from the Forest Service. Tree cover in urban areas has declined at a rate of around 175,000 a...