Study finds most wars occur in Earth's richest biological regions

Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 08:08 in Earth & Climate

Arlington, Virginia (Feb. 20, 2009) ? In a startling result, a new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened places on Earth.

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