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Global ban on biofuels would lead to immediate decline in food prices

Brazil will forge its own path for developing the Amazon

Nitrogen pollution harming ecosystems and contributing to global warming

Tropical deforestation is ‘one of the worst crises since we came out of our caves’

After acquittal, fear of open season on activists in the Amazon rainforest

Convicted nun-killer freed in the Brazilian Amazon

Brazil’s environmental minister resigns after losing Amazon fight

Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests

2 billion trees planted in 18 months

Massive deforestation of mangroves may have worsened scale of disaster in Burma

China to push for overseas acquisition of farmland to improve food security

46% of Brazil’s energy comes from renewable sources

Sustainability conference reveals a rift in the Malaysian Palm Oil Council

High palm oil prices kill the biodiesel market for Asia

Unilever calls for ban on rainforest destruction for palm oil

PETA offers $1M for lab-grown meat

Borneo’s pygmy elephants are an alien species

Malaysian palm oil industry puts sustainability in the spotlight

Amazon farming technique may fight global warming

Ocean dead zones have nearly quadrupled since 1994

Corn planting to drop 8% in 2008

Eastern Europe could counter high food prices

Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming

Corn ethanol is worsening the Gulf dead zone

Global warming to worsen crop damage from frost

Half the Amazon rainforest will be lost within 20 years

Organic fertilizers could fight global warming

Restoring soil carbon can reverse global warming, desertification and biodiversity loss

World fertilizer prices surge 200% in 2007, hurting the poor

Ancient Amazon fires linked to human populations

Fire policy is key to reducing the impact of drought on the Amazon

Small Amazon farmers especially vulnerable to climate change

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