Mental Floss: Not so long ago, the majority of the Earth was blanketed in forests and jungles, vast deserts, and sprawling savannas. But these days, the Earths wilderness is rapidly eroding. The Verge reports that, according to a recent study published in Current Biology, 10 percent of the Earths wilderness has disappeared in the last two decades alone.
Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society analyzed satellite and survey data since the 1990s in order to measure the loss of the Earths untamed...