Abandoned farmlands could play a role in fighting climate change.

A new tool developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison could help relieve that tension.  Led by Yanhua Xie and Tyler Lark, researchers with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, the team used machine learning to map nearly 30 million acres of United States cropland abandoned since the 1980s, creating a tool that could guide decisions about how to balance production of energy and food.

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