Scientists are calling for the urgent protection of ecologically valuable roadless areas, writes Tim Radford, as a new global map shows that roads lead to loss of biodiversity and damage to ecosystems by fragmenting habitat and providing access to exploiters.
… roadless areas, writes Tim Radford, as a new global map shows that roads lead to loss of … of cars, trucks and tractors as vulnerable: "Global protection of ecologically valuable …
A 145,000 sq km area of peatland swamp forest has been discovered in the Congo Basin, writes Tim Radford, and it holds a record 30 Gt of carbon, equivalent to 20 years of US fossil fuel emissions. Now the race is on to protect it from damaging development that would emit that carbon over coming decades.
… volume of CO 2 with disastrous results for global climate. This is already happening in … can absorb, and on the overall impact of global warming on the world's grasslands and …