Do you think the best way to save the Amazon would be to bomb all the roads going to it?

That's how a new opinion piece by Professor William Laurance of James Cook University in New Scientist opens. They aren't his words (instead those of Brazilian scientist Eneas Salati) but Laurence agrees in sentiment if not solution. You may never have considered it, but here's why something as simple as a new road can ruin a rainforest, in Laurence's words: