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Roads could help protect the environment rather than destroy it, argues Nature paper
2013-03-22 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Rapidly expanding road networks are causing large-scale damage to forests but proper infrastructure planning and implementation could actually turn them into a net positive for the environment, argue researchers writing in the journal Science. William Laurance and Andrew Balmford highlight the severe environmental impacts of roads in wilderness areas, including fostering illegal logging, poaching, colonization, and land speculation. "More than 95% of deforestation, fires and atmospheric carbon...
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