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Clearing Forests For Biofuel Hurts Climate - Study
Dec 2 2008, Varsha Lohlta

Clearing tropical forests to plant biofuels is a bad idea for the climate and reduces the diversity of animal and plant life. “Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations,”

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