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Study: Growing Palm Oil Could Speed Climate Change

2013-01-30 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Growing palm oil trees to make biofuels could be accelerating the effects of climate change, new research showed on Wednesday, adding further weight to claims the crop is not environmentally sustainable. In a paper published in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists examined how the deforestation of peat swamps in Malaysia to make way for palm oil trees is releasing carbon which has been locked away for thousands of years. Microbes then penetrate the carbon and the harmful greenhouse...

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