Farmland comes at expense of forests

Friday, September 3, 2010 - 18:14 in Earth & Climate

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- More than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics since 1980 has come from felling forests, which drives global warming, researchers say. Forest - Global warming - Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views

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