Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.
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Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
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The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
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