<![CDATA[cerrado news from mongabay.com]]> http://www.mongabay.com en-us Copyright 2006 mongabay.com Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests]]> Environmental Research Letters. Analyzing the carbon debt for biofuel crops grown in ecosystems around the world, Holly Gibbs and colleagues report that "while expansion of biofuels into productive tropical ecosystems will always lead to net carbon emissions for decades to centuries... [expansion] into degraded or already cultivated land will provide almost immediate carbon savings." The results suggest that under the right conditions, biofuels could be part of the effort to reduce humanity's carbon footprint.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0722-biofuels.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0722-biofuels.html <![CDATA[Photos of newly discovered species in Brazil's Cerrado]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-cerrado.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-cerrado.html <![CDATA[Amazon deforestation surging due to oil, soy prices]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0117-amazon.html Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0117-amazon.html <![CDATA[Tree resprouting offers hope in former pastures of Brazil's cerrado]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0907-cerrado.html Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0907-cerrado.html <![CDATA[Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0821-cerrado.html Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0821-cerrado.html <![CDATA[Can cattle ranchers and soy farmers save the Amazon?]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-carter_interview.html Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-carter_interview.html <![CDATA[Globalization could save the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0604-nepstad_interview.html Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0604-nepstad_interview.html <![CDATA[Two 'dragon' species discovered in Brazil]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-dragon.html Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-dragon.html <![CDATA[Hudson Institute calls Amazon savanna biome a wasteland]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0423-hudson.html Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0423-hudson.html <![CDATA[Greenpeace accuses McDonald's of destroying the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0406-greenpeace.html Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0406-greenpeace.html <![CDATA[Brazil's grasslands could replace food production of American heartland]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0801-tina_butler.html Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0801-tina_butler.html