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Killing Millions of Gassy Animals Could Really Cut Carbon, Study Says

Photo via chuck12600 If you hate carbon emissions, the Australian Outback may seem like a paradise, unless you’re a bit gassy, that is. According to a new study, the vast, sparsely populated Outback stores an incredible amount of carbon within its forests and grasslands, a whopping 9.7 billion tons of the stuff, in fact. As impressive as that is, researchers say the region could hold much, much more if certain measures were to be implemented, but there’s a catch — one calls for the culling… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Killing Millions of Gassy Animals Could Really Cut Carbon, Study Says

Nearly 70 percent of Argentine forests lost in a century

Argentina has lost nearly 70 percent of its forests in a century, the Environmental Secretariat said at a UN conference on desertification.

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Nearly 70 percent of Argentine forests lost in a century