Humanity’s footprint is squashing world’s wildlife

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 09:50 in Biology & Nature

A new study says that the planet’s wildlife is increasingly under the boot of humanity. Using the most comprehensive dataset on the “human footprint,” which maps the accumulated impact of human activities on the land’s surface, researchers from WCS, University of Queensland, and other groups found intense human pressures across the range of a staggering […]

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