Bioenergy potential of reviving abandoned agricultural land
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 11:56
in Earth & Climate
Across the globe, hundreds of millions of acres of once-productive agricultural land lie abandoned, according to a new report from researchers at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science. If this land was used to grow crops for conversion into biofuel, it could help ease the energy crunch without worsening the world food shortage or contributing to global warming.