Scientists are calling for sustainable practices in biofuels industry that will, as one of them described it, “reshape the earth’s landscape in a significant way”. Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory’s (MBL) Ecosystems Centre and 22 co-authors of a recent paper called for science-based policy in the emerging global biofuels industry, which by 2050 could command as much land as is currently farmed for food. “The identification of unintended consequences early in the development of a









