In between, the Great Turntable hummed, blanketed in miles of forest.
Nicaragua has about 40,000 square kilometres (15,450 square miles) of forest.
It probably killed nothing except reindeer but it flattened 800 square miles of forest.
The explosion flattened more than 2,000 square kilometres (800 square miles) of forest.
Nearly 570 square miles of forest, grass and brush had burned, officials said.
In Russia, there was significant die-off within 9,400 square miles of forest.
The fire consumed just over 32 square miles of forest and fields at Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
How many square miles of forest are cleared to graze cattle?
Africa used to boast nearly three million square miles of forest, only about one-third of which remain today.
At the time the ambition seemed vain: Brazil was losing 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 square miles) of forest a year.
As we move further from Montreal, the pylons, quarries and suburbs give way to miles upon miles of forest.
