{"id":464733,"date":"2018-04-18T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=74c7770630ea97305bfff0cca0964d3d"},"modified":"2018-04-18T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:13:05","slug":"cities-and-communities-in-the-us-losing-36-million-trees-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=464733","title":{"rendered":"Cities and communities in the US losing 36 million trees a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists with the USDA Forest Service estimate that between 2009 and 2014, tree cover in the Nation&#8217;s urban\/community areas declined by 0.7 percent, which translates to losing an estimated 36 million trees or approximately 175,000 acres of tree cover annually. Pavement and other impervious cover increased at a rate of about 167,000 acres a year during the same period, according to research by USDA Forest Service scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists with the USDA Forest Service estimate that between 2009 and 2014, tree cover in the Nation&#8217;s urban\/community areas declined by 0.7 percent, which translates to losing an estimated 36 million trees or approximately 175,000 acres of tree cover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464734,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464733\/revisions\/464734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}