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80% of New Farmland in Tropics Carved From Forests Between 1980-2000 - Land the Size of Alaska Cleared
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More than 80% of new farmland in the tropics cultivated over the last two decades of the 20th century was carved out of tropical forests, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
BP to publish oil spill report on Wednesday: company
AFP - BP has announced it will publish an eagerly awaited report on the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Wednesday.
Invasive Quagga Mussels Could Eat Lake Michigan Ecosystem to Point of Collapse
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Forget about the potential damage by invasive Asian carp, another invasive species, the quagga mussel is likely to destroy the Lake Michigan ecosystem long before the bottom-feeding fish do.
Scientists Drill into Ancient, Underwater Coral Reef
LiveScience.com - A voyage to the outer edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has
brought back pieces of an ancient, fossilized ancestor to the vast,
living ecosystem.
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