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Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

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—James Rising, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. The wheat lands of the Great Plains see a gradual hollowing-out, while winter wheat moves up from the south along the Mississippi.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. Rapid assessment on biofuels and environment: overview and key findings. Martinelli, O.