Thursday, December 15, 2016

Humans have now carved up the Earth’s wilderness into 600,000 little pieces


The Washington Post

Scientists Thursday provided a global quantification of one of the most pervasive, but least recognized, ways that humans are marring the coherence of the natural world — by building endless numbers of roads. Story here.

 A logging road in the UK. Richard Webb
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