A tenth of the world's wilderness lost since the 1990s, study finds
Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 11:01
in Earth & Climate
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology show catastrophic declines in wilderness areas around the world over the last 20 years. They demonstrate alarming losses comprising a tenth of global wilderness since the 1990s - an area twice the size of Alaska and half the size of the Amazon. The Amazon and Central Africa have been hardest hit.