How Many Trees Are On Earth?

A count of the number of trees on Earth is complete.

FOX News Radio’s Brett Larson reports:

There are now more than 3 trillion trees growing on Earth, which is seven times more than scientists previously thought.�That said, there are also trillions fewer than there used to be.

The leafy findings are from a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature by Yale�forestry�researcher Thomas�Crowther.

Crowther and his colleagues used 429,775 ground based measurements with satellite measurements and computer models for the count.

But with people cutting down 15 billion trees a year, and only 5 billion replanted,�Crowther says Earth’s trees could be gone in about 300 years.

Brett Larson, FOX News Radio.