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Contact: Gina Hebert
ghebert@mbl.edu
508-289-7725
Marine Biological Laboratory

Amazon Deforestation

Caption: MBL senior scientist Jerry Melillo and his colleagues have found that carbon emissions from land-use change caused by the displacement of food crops and pastures by a global biofuels program may be twice as much as emissions from lands directly devoted to biofuels production.

Credit: Chris Neill, MBL

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