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Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces more than a billion kilos of CO2 emissions annually

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Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces more than a billion kilos of CO2 emissions annually

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Visitors walking on a boardwalk in Yellowstone National Park.

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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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