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...tropical countries, where the growth of agriculture often comes at the expense of trees. In nations like Brazil and Indonesia - where deforestation is behind the vast majority of carbon emissions - rain forests are not just cut down for logging but also burned to make room for new farms and pastureland. As more people need more food - and biofuels as well - there's a risk that we could see many of our remaining virgin rain forests wiped out completely...
...Producing all that meat will do more than just warm the world; it will also raise pressure on land resources. The FAO estimates that about 20% of the planet's pastureland has been degraded by grazing animals, and increased demand for meat means increased demand for animal feed - much of the world's grain production is fed to animals rather than to humans. (The global spike in grain prices over the past year is in large part due to the impact on grain supplies of the growing demand for meat.) The expanded production of meat has been facilitated by industrial...
...that there's little or no value for standing forests," says Paulo Moutinho, who studies Brazilian forests for the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC). Put a value on forests in the carbon market, and suddenly it makes sense to leave a tree be, rather than clear it for cheap pastureland. The value doesn't even have to be that high - a new report by WHRC found that it might cost as little as $10 per sq km in some areas to make conservation pay better than destruction. "That's cheap by today's standards," says Daniel Nepsted, a senior scientist...
...supporters, sits across the road from Camp Casey, and a mile or so away the peaks of a huge Camelot-like tent shades is Camp Casey II with its new field of crosses, a chow line, portable toilets, media tables, yoga tent and stage. A local landowner offered his pastureland to the antiwar protestors when the original Camp Casey spilled over the ditches and drew large crowds along narrow, winding Prairie Chapel Road...
...near the small town of Parkfield, which sits astride a transitional zone between a segment of the San Andreas that in 1857 produced one of the largest quakes in U.S. history and another segment characterized by snail-like creep and small, quiet microquakes. Here, amid rolling hills and golden pastureland, scientists with a National Science Foundation initiative called EarthScope are building a remarkable underground observatory known as SAFOD, or the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth...