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Today, it may not directly affect the physical and socioeconomic environment of the U.S. as much as it does some developing countries, but deforestation anywhere deserves some attention, and not just from tree huggers. It accounts for about one fifth of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, after all, and a study from the WWF (World [...]

Oft-hailed over the past few years as a panacea for our nation’s energy and agriculture woes, biofuel has had a tough week. According to two independent studies published in the journal Science yesterday, almost all of the biofuels used today actually emit more greenhouse gases than do fossil fuels if we count the “full emissions [...]

We don’t usually think that hard about what that means. Calories, yes; occasionally we consider the carbon footprint of our meal in terms of how far it had to travel to us, if it came packaged in plastic or cardboard, etc. But a recent New York Times article brings to light the truly dark side [...]