According to a new study, at least 50 percent of the world’s population currently lives in cities, and humans are building the equivalent of a city the size of Vancouver every week. This urbanization threatens to obliterate endangered species and hasten the decline of natural resources like fresh water.
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Are Expanding Cities Killing the Planet?
(via www.nature.org)
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