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Biofuels boom threatens to disrupt global biodiversity
2013-03-14 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deustsche-Welle: The rush around the world to plant crops used to produce biofuel has not only sparked a global food vs. fuel debate, but its also putting biodiversity at risk. Last fall, a group of more than 200 American scientists banded together to protest a government decision allowing two potentially invasive species of grass to be grown for biofuel. In a letter to the Obama administration, the biologists and ecologists urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prevent the spread of the plants on...
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