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Scientists unveil breakthrough tool that could help stop the world's third‑biggest driver of deforestation (phys.org)
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Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, World Forest ID, University of Sheffield and international collaborators have developed a new technique that can identify where soybeans—the third largest driver of tropical deforestation—are grown to within roughly 200 kilometers, a breakthrough that could transform efforts to stop deforestation linked to global food supply chains.

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[–] lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

The first biggest driver of deforestation is animal agriculture. We could literally just choose to not eat animals and deforestation would be a thing of the past as we’d need 75% less land.