Hazards of Biofuels

November 20, 2013 By: Erin Block

The prairies of the Great Plains are being transformed to farm fields for biofuels. But this grassland conversion to corn and soy is at great expense to wildlife habitat and wetlands, states a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Bob Marshall details the impacts on Field & Stream, and Chet Brokaw and Jack Gillum explore the issue in a recent piece in Time Magazine.