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Tropical forests are being lost at the rate of 5 million hectares per year. how many hectares per day is that? how many hectares per minute?

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5,000,000/365= 13,698.630137 hectatres per day /1440 = 9.5129375951388..... hectares per minute

365 days in a year
1440 minutes in a day (24hrs)


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