How much of the Amazon rainforest would it take to print the Internet?

Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 06:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Students from the University of Leicester have calculated how much paper would be required to physically print the Internet as we know it - and have found that, despite the Internet's enormous size, less than 1 per cent of the Amazon rainforest's trees would be required to accomplish it.

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