CONSERVATION NEWS
News, views and features from the front lines of conservation
Flavio Forner
Deforestation in the Amazon, fuel-efficient futures, shark by-catch: 3 stories you may have missed
By Kiley Price
July 29, 2019
In case you missed it: Deforestation rates in the Amazon exponentially increasing, four major automakers signed a deal with California to increase fuel-efficiency standards and sharks have little refuge from the dangers of bycatch.
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Sze Fei Wong
Forests and facts: 5 things to know about a gloomy new study
By Bruno Vander Velde
September 29, 2017
According to a new study, the world’s tropical forests are in such poor shape that they are emitting more climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorb.
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What on Earth is the ‘carbon budget’?
By Bruno Vander Velde
September 20, 2017
In this installment of “What on Earth?” we explore the “carbon budget” — what it is, why it’s important, and how a new study about it is making waves.
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