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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

Green Car Congress

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. —Miettinen et al. That number is in my opinion conservative, and consistent with a slight reduction in the rate of peat conversion.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

Cars That Think

To the east, they typically run through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, or through the waters of the Arabian Sea before they stretch out to India and beyond. For comparison, Google’s Durant , from Virginia to France, has a record-holding capacity of 250 terabits per second.) Meta’s plans are even more ambitious.