Reuters: Clearing tropical forests to plant biofuels is a bad idea for the climate and reduces the diversity of animal and plant life, a study found on Monday. “Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations,” according to scientists from seven nations writing in the journal Conservation Biology. Millions of hectares of forest land in South East Asia has been converted to palm oil plantations to produce biofuels …