My News: Using China”s forests and ‘idle land’ to produce biofuels could pose a threat to biodiversity, warned experts at an international meeting. Spike Millington, chief technical advisor to the European Union-China Biodiversity Programme, raised the problem earlier this month (7 March) at the International Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change, held in Beijing, China. In July 2007, China released its middle- and long-term plan for renewable energy. While shunning corn or …