Divorce often takes a devastating emotional toll on families, and it has significant impacts on the environment as well, a new study suggests.
When couples split and form additional households, it dramatically boosts the consumption of water, land, energy, and other resources. In many parts of the world, such resources are becoming severely limited, says Jianguo Liu, an ecologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
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