Untouched nature was almost as rare 12,000 years ago as it is now
By Layal Liverpool Woodland in the UK has been influenced by human activity for millenniaSteve Speller/AlamyAs early as 12,000 years ago, nearly three-quarters of land on Earth was inhabited and shaped by human societies, suggesting global biodiversity loss in recent years may have been driven primarily by an intensification of land use rather than by…