> The study also finds that there are 46 percent fewer trees on Earth than there were before humans started the lengthy, but recently accelerating, process of deforestation. “We can now say that there’s less trees than at any point in human civilization,”

> loss of 15.3 billion trees each year... 5 billion of those may grow back each year, so the net loss is more like 10 billion annually.

> does not in any way change our understanding of the current rates of deforestation... “It does not say there’s more forest. It just says there’s more trees in the forest,” says Lovejoy.

> deforestation is making global warming worse... if we were living on an Earth with close to 6 trillion trees, rather than 3 trillion, climate change would be less severe.