2008Sept9: Sicily has been treeless for more than 2,000 years (NY Times, 2008).
Reference: New York Times. 2008. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/denuded-islands-planetary-emergencies/
Image Description: In northeastern Sicily, Mt. Etna continues to erupt. NASA’s Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured this image, 2001July22. http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1868 Image Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
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