Environmental stories tagged with: deforestation
Biofuels boom could fuel rainforest destruction
Tuesday, 17th March 2009, 1:52 pm
Farmers across the tropics might raze forests to plant biofuel crops, according to new research by Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment.
 Biofuels Costing the Earth?Friday, 17th August 2007, 4:49 pm
Increasing amounts of biofuels are being produced to reduce the carbon dioxide impact of transport. But the World Land Trust argues this requires vast areas of land and is not the best way of using land to mitigate climate change.
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 Conservatives Proposals to Slash DeforestationTuesday, 22nd May 2007, 11:21 am
Shadow Environment Secretary Peter Ainsworth has unveiled new Conservative proposals designed to put a price on the carbon stored in rainforests, and reduce deforestation by an estimated 75 per cent a year.
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