Friday, January 7, 2011

DEFORESTATION OF THE EARTH'S FORESTS


Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, usually resulting in damage to the quality of the land. According to National Geographic, forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year.  Many believe that the world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. 

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