What lies beneath
A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global warming. But the research team also noted that big agribusiness has largely replaced small farmers in doing most of the tree cutting in Brazil and Indonesia, which may make it easier to rein in the trend.Global agricultural expansion cut a wide swath through tropical forests during the 1980s and 1990s. More than half a million square miles of new farmland ? an area roughly the size of Alaska ? was created in the developing world between 1980 and 2000, of which over 80 percent was carved out of tropical forests, according to Stanford researcher Holly Gibbs."This has huge implications for global warming, if we continue to expand our farmland into tropical forests at that rate," said Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science, who led the
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends ...
Fri 3 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 3 (UPI) -- More than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics since 1980 has come from felling forests, which drives global warming, researchers say. ...
Fri 3 Sep 10 from UPI
80% of tropical agricultural expansion between 1980-2000 came at expense of forests
More than 80 percent of agricultural expansion in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense of forests, reports research published last week in the early online edition of the Proceedings ...
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Most New Farmland Comes From Cutting Down Forests
A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the ...
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Most new farmland in tropics comes from slashing forests, research shows
A new study shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global ...
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Tropical forests slashed for farmland
Global agricultural expansion cut a wide swath through tropical forests during the 1980s and 1990s. Over half a million square miles of new farmland - an area roughly the size of Alaska - was ...
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