The taming of a vast wilderness

• Autores: Michael Slezak
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2977, 2014, pág. 6
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Australia has a daring plan: to convert its tropical north into a huge "food bowl". The area being considered spans 3 million square kilometers. The plan offers many benefits, but the environmental risk has not yet been properly measured and may be huge. Developing the north is a major aim of the Liberal party governing Australia. They want to double the country's agricultural output by mid-century. However, Northern Australia contains 25% of the world's tropical savannahs--the only significant area in a wealthy, stable country. Each wet season, rivers overflow and flood the savannah, and life blooms.