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U.S. corn subsidies aggravating Amazon deforestation

The law of unintended consequences has struck again and once again corn ethanol is at the center of it. The net benefits of producing fuel ethanol from corn are constantly debated here and elsewhere. Now there is yet another potentially huge cost to America's desire to use maize as a fuel. Dr. William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has released a new study blaming U.S. corn subsidies for a recent surge in the burning of Amazon rain forests. In the past two years, U.S. corn production has spiked by 19 percent, mostly at ... Read more →

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U.S. corn subsidies aggravating Amazon deforestation

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