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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

Global warming to hurt agriculture in world’s poorest regions

55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030

Palm oil industry prepares green initiative to counter criticism

U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon

Amazon deforestation surging due to oil, soy prices

Cellulosic ethanol production could fight Gulf Dead Zone, help fisheries

DR Congo has great potential for biofuels says U.N. official

Leading biofuels wreak environmental havoc

Global food prices rise 40% in 2007 to new record

Brazil bans illegal soy and cattle production in the Amazon rainforest

Tropical forests face huge threat from industrial agriculture

China boosts wheat production with new high-yielding varieties

Climate risks to global agriculture are underestimated

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