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March 1, 2013 - The Guardian Environment Blog

Emma Bryce: Conservationists warn that biofuels pose huge problems for habitats already severely marginalised by agricultural change.

A collection of satellite-imaged maps now confirm what were once only rumours: between 2006 and 2011, farmers in the United States' corn belt - an amber swath of land encompassing North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa – converted 1.3m acres of temperate grassland and wetland into soybean and corn crops for biofuel.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/mar/01/biofuel-habitat-loss-usa

 

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