: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see Metric System Table
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Billions of hectares of land are degraded, affecting almost half of the world’s population and threatening half of global GDP.
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Philip Lymbery and Leticia Carvalho, TIME, 7 June 2024
Last year, wildfires scorched 18.5 million hectares, or 46 million acres, of land in Canada, more than doubling the previous record set two decades ago, and sending smoke as far away as Europe.
—Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 May 2024
From 2018 through 2022, Argonne National Laboratory landscape ecologist Leroy J. Walston and his colleagues regularly visited two such arrays covering a dozen hectares each in southern Minnesota.
—Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
This is reinforced by a decline in the average size of land holdings to a tiny 1.16 hectares in fiscal 2014.
—Derek Scissors, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2016
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Philip Lymbery and Leticia Carvalho, TIME, 7 June 2024
Last year, wildfires scorched 18.5 million hectares, or 46 million acres, of land in Canada, more than doubling the previous record set two decades ago, and sending smoke as far away as Europe.
—Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 May 2024
From 2018 through 2022, Argonne National Laboratory landscape ecologist Leroy J. Walston and his colleagues regularly visited two such arrays covering a dozen hectares each in southern Minnesota.
—Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
This is reinforced by a decline in the average size of land holdings to a tiny 1.16 hectares in fiscal 2014.
—Derek Scissors, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2016
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hectare
noun
hect·are
ˈhek-ˌta(ə)r 
-ˌte(ə)r
-ˌte(ə)r
-ˌtär
: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see metric system
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