[FourPeas]

``There's not a square centimeter on Earth that's not affected by humans and what we produce, from chemicals in the atmosphere to global warming

Notice the need to interject doom-and-gloom into the article. Obviously, we can't report good news about the environment, otherwise all those enviro-loonies would be seen for the junk scientists that they are.

[Pitchfork]

Noice that the good news isn't all that good. The largest areas of untouched wilderness are the Arctic, Antarctica, the Sahara (although not mentioned I suspect the interior of Australia) and the large Tiaga forests of Northern Canada and Siberia. They do mention the Congo and Amazon basins but we know that those areas are under pressure. Conspicuously absent are any non-desert temperate regions. This, of course, is where the wild-life lives. Bio-density in the deserts and conifer forests is not all that high when compared to warmer and wetter climates. But it seems these low productive regiona are all we're going to have left some day. The earth will have lungs like an emphazema (sp?) ridden chain smoker.

[cibco]

"The research was done over two years by scientists from such institutions as the World Bank; Cambridge and Harvard universities; Zimbabwe's Biodiversity Foundation for Africa;"

The Zim people seem to be working to increase the amount of wilderness in their own country and just too bad 1/2 of the people will starve in the process. Screw 'EM!