Research Finds Link Between Increased Crops and Deforestation in Amazon, but Issue Not So Cut and Dry
Kansas State UniversityA Kansas State University geographer is part of a research team out to prove what environmental scientists have suspected for years: Increasing the production of soybean and biofuel crops in Brazil increases deforestation in the Amazon. Although this cause-and-effect finding seems fairly straightforward, the issue of deforestation in the Amazon is more complex and more devastating than previously believed.