(Press-News.org) Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces more than a billion kilos of CO2 emissions annually, with 90% arising through travel to and from the park, especially from visitors arriving by plane.
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000391
Article Title: Quantifying and evaluating strategies to decrease carbon dioxide emissions generated from tourism to Yellowstone National Park
Author Countries: United States
Funding: This work was supported by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station (Project #1490 to JWS). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces more than a billion kilos of CO2 emissions annually
2024-04-03
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