Alarming Losses, Twice the Size of Alaska, of World's Wilderness Areas

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Sep 8, 2016, 2:00 pm152 pts
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…

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Alarming Losses, Twice the Size of Alaska, of World's Wilderness Areas

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