Plowing Prairies For Grains: Biofuel Crops Replace Grasslands Nationwide
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 00:20
in Earth & Climate
Clearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show in a study today (April 2, 2015) that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four-year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands. read more