Earth's health deteriorating
Growing populations and expanding economic activity have strained the planet’s ecosystems over the past half century, a trend that threatens international efforts to combat poverty and disease, a UN-sponsored study of the Earth’s health has warned.
The four-year, €18.9m study – the largest-ever to show how people are changing their environment – found that humans had depleted 60% of the world’s grasslands, forests, farmlands, rivers and lakes.
