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December 17th, 2010
How Hard Are We Pushing the Land?

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We may be becoming an ever more technologically advanced society, but we remain as dependent as ever — if not more and more so — on the natural world that surrounds us. That is one takeaway from new NASA research that has found humans are using an increasing amount of the Earth’s total land plant production each year for food, fiber, building and packaging materials and biofuels. Read More