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The world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. A study published in the journal Nature found that in fifteen years the Amazon could turn from a carbon absorber into a carbon emitter, due to wildfires, deforestation and the excess greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere.  At a time when we need to be …

This week’s feature is a report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Beth Edwards on spreading invasive pests by transporting firewood. A property contaminated with uranium, PCBs and other toxic chemicals from an abandoned Manhattan Project contract facility has undergone repeated shoreline collapses into the Detroit River in Michigan. The EPA recently reauthorized the use of poisonous so-called cyanide bombs to kill …