Phys.org: Paving a highway across South America is providing lessons on the impact of road construction elsewhere. That's what a University of Florida researcher and his international colleagues have determined from analyzing communities along the Amazonian portion of the nearly 4,200-mile Interoceanic Highway, a coast-to-coast road that starts at ports in Brazil and will eventually connect to ones in Peru. The results of their five-year study provide a holistic picture of the social, environmental and...
URL: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-highway-amazon-worsens-effects-climate.html
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