Indonesian Palm Oil Is Growing Source of CO2 Emissions, Study Shows

Yale Environment 360: The rapid expansion of palm oil plantations in the world's tropical regions, particularly Indonesian Borneo, is becoming an increasingly significant source of global carbon emissions, a new study says. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from Stanford and Yale universities project that the continued expansion of plantations will add more than 558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2020 -- an amount greater than all of Canada's current fossil fuel emissions....

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