Amazon bought more renewable power last year than any other company
The additions made Amazon the largest corporate purchaser of renewable power, according to BloombergNEF. The company’s total ...
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Deforested parts of Amazon 'emitting more CO2 than they absorb'
Up to one fifth of the Amazon rainforest is emitting more CO2 than it absorbs, new research suggests. Results from a decade-long study of greenhouse gases over the Amazon basin appear to show ...
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Climate change: Amazon regions emit more carbon than they absorb
Deforestation and climate change are altering the Amazon rainforest's ability to ... in the form of the greenhouse gas CO2 - than they store are known as sinks. The role played by the lands ...
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Droughts could turn Amazon basin from greenhouse gas eater to source of gases
Frequent severe dry spells like the ones in 2005 and 2010 risk turning the Amazon from a greenhouse gas eater into a source of the gases, which could definitely accelerate global warming ...
Tech giants sounded the alarm about climate change. Now they're warming up to Trump
Some industry observers told ABC News that the ostensible softening toward Trump by big-tech corporations reflects a new ...
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In Brazil, an Amazon reforestation project seeks to redeem carbon markets
"The Amazon is the best place in the world to reforest," he added, citing the loss of 60 million hectares since 2015. The ...
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Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet
See All Key Ideas Decades of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Tapajós River Basin have left a heavy environmental legacy in the Brazilian Amazon ... and high greenhouse gas emissions.