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Brazil signs sustainable ethanol deal with Sweden

Nestle Chairman: Biofuels are “ethically indefensible”

More than 8% of the Brazilian Amazon is illegally owned

Does logging contribute to AIDS deaths in Africa?

Amazon beef producer creates eco-certified meat product with help of scientists

Big Farms Can Make the Leap to Organic Farming, Study Suggests

Food miles are less important to environment than food choices, study concludes

Cellulosic biofuels may be viable alternative to gas within 5 years

Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo

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

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

Amazon farming technique may fight global warming

Bats protect crops from insects

Ocean dead zones have nearly quadrupled since 1994

Bats eat as many insects as birds

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

UN: biofuels are starving the poor by driving up food prices

Cheap ranch loans may be driving jump in Amazon deforestation

Biofuels are worsening global warming

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