Forests first appeared on Earth 400 million years ago. Now the forests that have sustained life on our planet and maintained climatic stability are disappearing, felled by human hands at the alarming rate of equivalent to 20 tennis courts every second.
In this edition of Earthrium, we use our globe to show how the planet's forests are being lost. We hope viewing this globe will prompt you to think carefully about what forests mean to the Earth.

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→How forests were created
→Deforestation viewed from space
→Progress in afforestation
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