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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Changi_Airport
    by bookofjoe
  • that's just about the turnover period for fast-growing pine clearcuts
    by ruined
  • Trees are awesome. Wood is probably the rarest material in the known universe :)
    by Razengan
  • We still need more trees! Trees do not only act as carbon storage, potentially offsetting CO2 emissions. They also provide shade, which helps mitigate the effects of global warming. Through evapotranspiration they also participate in the water cycle and help carry humidity further inland. We need more trees in our cities, we need more trees in our villages, we need more trees in our agricultural systems. Plant more trees!
    by ciconia
  • "Deforestation and degradation rates remained stubbornly high in 2024, pushing the world even further off track from the shared goal of halting and reversing forest loss by 2030." https://forestdeclaration.org/resources/forest-declaration-a...
    by smallerize
  • There are certainly more trees where I lived than there were a hundred years ago, but there are also more trees than there would have been a thousand years ago. I live in an area that should be natural prairie and humans have planted a lot more trees than the ecosystem would support in a natural situation.

    I don't know if this is good or bad from an environment situation, but it is a part of a reason I am suspicious of claims that more trees are good.

    by bluGill
  • I think most people reading a headline about tree count would care primarily about deforestation and loss of habitat of indigenous species.

    This article isn't about that, and explicitely states it doesn't touch deforestation per se, just sheer tree count, including production targeted tree farms.

    TFA:

    > While the classification may seem simplistic, powerful conclusions can be drawn from the data, including assessing agricultural expansion, climate-driven expansion and contraction of ecosystems, and forest clearing and recovery.

    by makeitdouble
  • Trees alone aren't enough. For example, ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest are highly balanced ecosystems that are in a perpetual recursive loop. You can't tear them down and then rebuild them by just planting trees. The rainfall the Amazon gets is itself generated by the canopied rainforest. And you can't bring back all the diversity of life that gets lost.

    And this goes for any other ecosystem.

    And the staggering statistic is that only 30% of the Earth is covered by forest now, a drop from 60% prior to humans going nuts.

    Here's also an article that provides some counter arguments to the original paper: https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/plan....

    by bmitc

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