One-tenth of global wilderness has disappeared since 1990s

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 09:41 in Earth & Climate

A research team including Professor William Laurance from James Cook University has discovered there has been a catastrophic decline in global wilderness areas during the past 20 years. The team showed that since the 1990s, one-tenth of all global wilderness has vanished—an area twice the size of Alaska.  The Amazon and Central Africa have been hardest […]

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