UN Warns of Biofuels' Environmental Risk

January 23, 2008 By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer

(AP) -- The world's rush to embrace biofuels is causing a spike in the price of corn and other crops and could worsen water shortages and force poor communities off their land, a U.N. official said Wednesday.

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