20 Things That Would Happen if Humans Disappeared From Earth Overnight
| September 14, 2016
Some cities will grow over
Just 25 years after man’s disappearance, urban landscapes will be overgrown by vegetation.
Without cars to drive on them, roads will be covered in moss and grasses. The forests and swamps that were previously paved over will have reclaimed their territory and places like Central Park will expand and take over the city. Within a few hundred years, urban areas and forests will be almost undiscernible from one another.
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