Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Amazon'
Subsituting soy for corn leads to deforestation in Brazil
Subsituting soy for wheat leads to deforestation in Brazil, according to story in Science just before Christmas. According to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute' many American soy farmers are shifting to corn to qualify for the government subsidies. Since 2006,...
Water and biofuels
OK, it seems to me that a lot of the talk about biofuels from renewable sources such as cattle waste, wheat, or cassava relies fundamentally on the amount of water available in the locations that are being farmed. My current...
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