stackyFACTSWhen settlers first arrived in Iceland, it was covered in lush birch forests. Within a few centuries, they had aggressively chopped down almost every single tree for firewood and pasture, triggering massive soil erosion and leaving the island looking like a barren, windswept rock purely through relentless human mismanagement.
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