The World Has Lost 10 Percent Of Its Wilderness Over Last Two Decades

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By Yale Environment 360Sep 8, 2016, 1:00 pm153 pts
The world has lost one-tenth of its wilderness — an area twice the size of Alaska — over the last 20 years, scientists reported this week in the journal Current Biology. Wilderness loss since the early 1990s. The hardest hit areas have been the Amazon and Central Africa, which have been plagued by rampant…

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The World Has Lost 10 Percent Of Its Wilderness Over Last Two Decades

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