How Much of the Amazon Rainforest Would it Take to Print the Internet?

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 percent of the Amazon rainforest's trees would be required to accomplish it.

The students presented their findings in a paper for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics, a peer-reviewed student journal run by the University's Centre for Interdisciplinary Science....