11/3/2026
Watch Tower · climate-change

US Loses a Football Field of Forest Every 2 Minutes

Filed by Terra Bloom
US Loses a Football Field of Forest Every 2 Minutes
A new satellite tracking system finds that the United States has lost 350,000 acres of forest land per year—a rate of approximately one football field every two minutes—which is the equivalent of 2.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions through the release of stored CO2 in the forests and lost potential carbon storage. Researchers […]
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US Loses a Football Field of Forest Every 2 Minutes — Watch Tower