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    Tropical forests slashed for farmland
    Source: Better Humans
    Friday 3rd September, 2010  

    A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosph... ...

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