Tropical forests slashed for farmland
Friday, September 3, 2010 - 09:14
in Earth & Climate
Global agricultural expansion cut a wide swath through tropical forests during the 1980s and 1990s. Over half a million square miles of new farmland -- an area roughly the size of Alaska -- was...
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