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Uneconomic Plants Contribute 20 Percent of US Coal-Fired Electricity
WASHINGTON (Union of Concerned Scientists)—Despite political rhetoric to the contrary and recent actions by the Trump administration, the market reality is that coal-fired power...
FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Forest Fragmentation Causing Brazil’s Rainforests to Release More Carbon
Because of fragmentation and deforestation of tropical rainforests in Brazil, significantly more carbon has been lost than was previously assumed.
AGRICULTURE AND CARBON EMISSIONS
Sunlight Controls Carbon Released from Thawing Permafrost in Arctic
Researchers find that sunlight, and not bacteria, is the key to triggering the production of CO2 from carbon released by thawing permafrost soil in Arctic.