A good place to start looking is a 2005 map by the U.S. Geological Survey that depicts the average distance to the nearest road for every point in the contiguous states. (A point, in this case, is ...

Many summer visitors to Summit County, and even some locals, don’t fully understand what a “wilderness area” is. Is it any ...

Deforestation around roads in Rondonia, Brazil, 1984-2016. Google Earth. One thing that wilderness maps are particularly good at illustrating is how wild land is being lost to the demand for food ...

Scotland is perhaps the country with the most detailed wilderness mapping in the world today. It has been mapped at global, continental, national, regional and local scales, each one showing ...

Published in the journal Nature, the map shows the top five countries holding the majority of remaining wildernesses (known as mega wildernesses) as Russia, Australia, Canada, USA and Brazil and ...

One thing that wilderness maps are particularly good at illustrating is how wild land is being lost to the demand for food, fuel, water, timber and minerals as the human population increases.

There aren’t many corners of the world left untouched by humanity. Recent research has highlighted that just 23% of the planet’s land surface (excluding Antarctica) and 13% of the ocean can now be ...