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The Top 10 Biofuels Stories of 2008: #1, Land use changes, emissions

A pair of articles in Science magazine at the beginning of the year set the tone for a negative debate on the role of biofuels, when two sets of researchers challenged the effectiveness of biofuels as a climate-change mitigation strategy.
A team led by Timothy Searchinger offered an indirect land-use impact model that showed a sharply [...]

NASA researchers developing process to measure biofuels land-use impact using satellite data

Researchers from NASA’s Ames Research Center said they are developing a process to use NASA satellite data and computer models to monitor the impact of land-use changes from biofuels on carbon emissions. The group said it will track existing and new planting of biofuel crops such as switchgrass, soybeans and corn. The team said that [...]