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The second series comes from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It produces a new assessment of global forests every 5 years. 8 The bar chart just below shows the earth’s surface cover just after the end of the last ice age. 3 10,000 years ago 57% of the world’s habitable land was covered by forest. That’s 6 billion hectares. Today, only 4 billion hectares are left. The world has lost one-third of its forest – an area twice the size of the United States.

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Terry Venables - The wheeler-dealing outsider who was the Michael Caine of football. As he dies aged 80, his biographer pays tribute In this article I look at what’s driving deforestation: that helps us understand what we need to do to solve it. Tiffany Haddish, 43, is seen for the FIRST TIME since her DUI arrest after she fell asleep at the wheel in the middle of the streetThis might paint a bleak picture for the future of the world’s forests: the United Nations projects that the global population will continue to grow, reaching 10.8 billion by 2100. But there are real reasons to believe that this century doesn’t have to replicate the destruction of the last one. Forestry production is the logging of managed, planted forests for products such as timber, paper and pulp. These forests are logged periodically and allowed to regrow. The rate and location of forest loss changed a lot. From 1700 to 1850, 19 million hectares were being cleared every decade. That’s around half the size of Germany. North London Drama school catapulted six working class kids into stardom thanks to Irish-Jewish teacher - so how many do you recognise? Taylor Swift invites the family of Ana Clara Benevides Machado - the 23-year-old Swiftie who died before the Rio show - to her Eras Tour performance in Sao Paolo, Brazil

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Our demand for both of these initially increases as populations grow and poor people get richer. We need more fuelwood to cook, more houses to live in, and importantly, more food to eat. EMILY PRESCOTT: Cressida's chilled to the Bonas... Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend shows she's still a fan of real shops