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Drivers of wildfire carbon emissions

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 October 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00922-6Increasing fire frequency and severity may shift boreal forests from carbon sinks to carbon sources and...

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Corporate America Is Committing To Carbon Cuts Through Science-Based Targets

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Why Tehran is sinking dangerously

Researchers have used data from radar satellites to measure the subsidence of the Earth's surface in the Tehran region in Iran. They found out...

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 September 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0596-4Shifting moisture source

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