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How much deforestation occurs globally each year?
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports (2005) that the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about13 million hectares (32.5 million acres) per year. Or250 000 hectares (625 000 acres) per week. Or35 714 hectares (89 000 acres) per day. Or1488 hectares (3720 acres) an hour. Or25 hectares (62 acres) a minute. Or0.4 hectares (1 acre) every second.An American Football field measures 0.53 ha (1.32 acres). So about 4 football fields every 5 seconds!Many people think the actual figure is much higher, because these figures were provided by each country, and may not include illegal logging.A report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.: The State of the World's Forests 2003 notes the percentage of forest lost between 1990 and 2000.Burundi (15 000 hectares, 9%) and Haiti lost the most (7 000, 5.7%).Some countries increased their forest cover. Among them:Israel 4.9% increaseIreland 3%Cuba 1.3%China 1.2%UK 0.6%New Zealand 0.5%USA 0.2%
How does human body works?
This can't be answered in a short sentence or paragraph. The human body has lots of different components and systems, each of which contribute to the body as a whole, and each of which works differently.
Do you like cleaning the earth?
I love cleaning the earth. I think it is the responsibility of everyone to leave the earth a better place. Each person can make a difference.
The solar energy received at each area of the Earth is not the same This is the driving force for the Earth's?
winds
What are the 4 spheres studied in earth science and what does each study?
nothing
How many hectares are available for each human on the earth?
Here is how you can figure this out.1) Decide whether you are interested about total surface, or only land surface. 2) Look up the total surface of the Earth, or the land surface, depending on the answer to question 1. This will usually be given in square kilometers, and sometimes also in square miles. 3) Use the square kilometers for this problem. Multiply it by 100, to get hectares. 4) Divide this number of hectares by the number of people on Earth.
For each human how many hectares are available?
The total amount of land available for each human varies widely by region and population density. On a global average, there are estimated to be approximately 1.9 hectares of arable land per person. However, this number can be significantly lower in densely populated regions and higher in sparsely populated areas.
In the US ecological footprint of each person is about 9.4 hectares. The Earth presently has 11.4 billion hectares of productive land and water. If everyone in the world lived at the same level of con?
A great majority of the world's population would have to be killed.
How many hectares of the boreal forest are clear cut each year in Canada?
The logging industry clear cuts over 290,000 hectares of forest in Quebec, 185,000 hectares in Ontario and 67,000 hectares of forest in Alberta every year
How many plots make 100 hectares?
Since 1 hectare = 10,000 square meters, 100 hectares would be 1,000,000 square meters. The size of each plot would depend on their configuration, but if we assume each plot is 1,000 square meters, then 100 plots could fit in 100 hectares.
How much of the savanna biome is destroyed?
2.3 million hectares each year
How many hectares of tropical rainforest are being lost each year to the logging industry?
500,000
How many plots are their in 3 hectares?
A plot is not a standard measure so it depends on how big each plot is.
What is Libra's distance from earth?
"Libra" is a constellation ... a group of stars that seem to join in a pattern when viewed by humans on Earth, in a region of the sky defined by human astronomers on Earth. The stars in Libra are totally unrelated to each other, and each of them is at a different distance from Earth.
How many blocks of land of each shape would fit into a hectares?
An infinite number - if they were made small enough.
How many plots of lands are in 10 hectare?
There are 100 plots of land in 10 hectares if each plot is 100 square meters. This is calculated by dividing 10 hectares (100,000 square meters) by 100 square meters per plot.
How many hectares make a kilometer?
a hectare is a unit of area, a kilometer is a unit of distance. The two do not convert into each other.
