Environmentalists can breathe easy – green cover has increased over the last decade

#greencover #treeplanting #environmentalists At every step there are fears that the green cover is depleting because mankind is felling trees and systematically ripping up forests with a result that the green cover is vanishing. But, environmentalists can now rest assured – our planet Earth today is actually greener than it was a decade ago.
This has been revealed in dailymail.co.uk dated 6 April 2015.
In one of the latest studies scientists have calculated that the total vegetation on the planet has increased substantially between 2003 and 2012. It is a fact that tropical jungles are still disappearing being felled for timber and to make way for cattle pasture, the tree growth in other places has compensated and outstripped the loss.

The area of ground covered by plants has increased in Russia, China, Australia and Africa, leading to a net gain in vegetation cover. Some of this is a result of deliberate conservation like huge tree-planting campaign by the Chinese.
In other places, it was attributable to high rainfalls that resulted in faster growth of shrubs and grasses on the plains of Africa, northern Australia and South America.
Moreover, the abandonment of large agricultural areas following the collapse of the Soviet Union has led to forests reclaiming farmland.
The study was carried out by an Australian team and they have found that the ‘greening effect’ has been so substantial that the world’s trees and plants are storing 4billion more tonnes of carbon than they were a decade before.
The results have been compiled by scientists after analyzing 20 years of satellite data and the findings have come after decades of warnings about environmental catastrophe being caused by deforestation.
The results of the study are published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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