Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Mongabay
Aug 31, 2020, 11:57 am266 pts
The forest biomass industry is sprawling and spreading globally — rapidly growing in size, scale, revenue, and political influence — even as forest ecologists and climatologists warn that the industry is putting the planet’s temperate and tropical forests at risk, and aggressively lobbying governments…

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