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Cheap ranch loans may be driving jump in Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Feb 2008

Biofuels are worsening global warming

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Feb 2008

Global warming to hurt agriculture in world’s poorest regions

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2008

55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2008

Palm oil industry prepares green initiative to counter criticism

Mongabay.com 18 Jan 2008

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2008

Amazon deforestation surging due to oil, soy prices

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2008

Cellulosic ethanol production could fight Gulf Dead Zone, help fisheries

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2008

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

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2008

Leading biofuels wreak environmental havoc

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2008

Global food prices rise 40% in 2007 to new record

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2007

Brazil bans illegal soy and cattle production in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2007

Tropical forests face huge threat from industrial agriculture

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2007

China boosts wheat production with new high-yielding varieties

Mongabay.com 4 Dec 2007

Climate risks to global agriculture are underestimated

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2007

Food prices to rise due to energy demand, economic trends

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2007

Transgenic plant may thrive under global warming-induced drought

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2007

Targeted payments to farmers could protect environment

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2007

Study reveals that nitrogen fertilizers deplete soil organic carbon

University Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign 30 Oct 2007

World needs a 10% meat diet to fight global warming

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2007

China urged to join sustainable soy efforts in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2007

Can remittances and globalization help the environment?

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2007

Loss of livestock breeds put food supplies at risk in poor countries

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2007

Investigation finds evidence of Borneo forest clearing for palm oil

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2007

Guidelines to ensure biofuels production won’t hurt the environment

Mongabay.com 30 Aug 2007

How private equity can profit from carbon offsets in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Aug 2007

NGOs should use palm oil to drive conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Aug 2007

Indonesia’s peatlands may offer U.S. firms global warming offsets

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Aug 2007

U.S. grazing lands at risk due to rising CO2 levels

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2007

Could peatlands conservation be more profitable than palm oil?

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2007

Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Aug 2007

Crop domestication originated in compost piles

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2007

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