Area impacted by land use change four times higher than previously thought

Mongabay
Jun 1, 2021, 7:44 am348 pts
A new study suggests that humans are having a greater impact on land than previously thought. According to its estimates, the extent of global land use change is actually four times larger than previously calculated. “This [study] is a very important contribution,” Karlheiz Erb, associate professor of land…

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