Biofuel production could undercut efforts to shrink Gulf 'Dead Z...

Courtesy http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Tue, 09/15/2009 - 22:00

(American Chemical Society) Scientists in Pennsylvania report that boosting production of crops used to make biofuels could make a difficult task to shrink a vast, oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico more difficult.

Their study is scheduled for the October 1 issue of ACS' semi-monthly journal Environmental Science and Technology.


 

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