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Can’t see the forest for the (palm) trees

by eduars | Sep 29, 2013 | Amazon Basin, Elsewhere in the World

Oil palm plantations in Kalimantan – the Indonesian name for the island known in English as Borneo – are expanding at the expense of forest, leading to an increase in carbon emissions, according to a study published October 7 in Nature Climate Change . The study found...
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