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2023 confirmed as hottest year; warning up on worsening climate crisis
Dry farms due to hot weather. —PHOTO FROM PNA.GOV.PH
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January 13, 2024January 13, 2024Climate Change

2023 confirmed as hottest year; warning up on worsening climate crisis

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The global temperature in 2023 hit 1.45 ± 0.12 °C—the hottest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in its Jan. 12 news release.   The years 2016 (which had a strong El Niño) and 2020 were previously classed as the warmest on record at 1.29 ±0.12°C and 1.27 ±0.12°C, respectively, above the...

Smoke, mirrors, wood pellets: Vietnam clears native forest to supply ‘clean’ energy to Asia
Following the harvest in late September 2023, a field of acacia trees in Tien Cam commune of Vietnam's central Quang Nam province was intentionally burned to prepare the land for the upcoming planting season / Credit: Thanh Nguyen.
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December 2, 2023December 2, 2023Environment

Smoke, mirrors, wood pellets: Vietnam clears native forest to supply ‘clean’ energy to Asia

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Expansive deforestation in Central Vietnam is being driven by the global demand for wood pellets—a supposedly green alternative to fossil fuels. This is part one of a two-part series on the wood pellet industry in Vietnam. For part two, please click here. Vietnam has supplied wood pellets to Japan and South Korea in their quest to...