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Tags: Amazon rainforest Brazil carbon deforestation sharks

Deforestation in the Amazon, fuel-efficient futures and 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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Tags: carbon carbon sink deforestation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tropical forests

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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Tags: atmosphere carbon carbon budget Christiana Figueres fossil fuels mitigation What on Earth

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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