Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: AN In the past decade, tropical-forest area ENVIRONMENTAL has shrunk from 4.7 to 4.2 billion acres (1.9 to 1.7 Increasing yearly CRISIS billion hectares). emissions have raised the atmospheric concentration of CO2 from 327 to 354 parts In the past 20 years, per million. as many as 1 million species have vanished 42 million acres (17 million hectares) from the world's tropical forests. 50,000 species (11 million hectares) 27 million acres 16.2 billion metric tons 21.9 billion metric tons 30,000 spcies 19703 19803 Yearly Extinction 19703 19803 1972 1989 Rates Yearly Tropical CO 2 Emissions TIME 6/1/92 Deforestation Growing population in coastal areas leads to more marine pollution and distruction of Urban 1980 617 mil. coastal habitats. Some 6.5 million tons of litter finds its Coastal way into the sea each year. Population 2000 997 mil.
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