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

04.03.24 | PLOS

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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.

PLOS Climate

10.1371/journal.pclm.0000391

Quantifying and evaluating strategies to decrease carbon dioxide emissions generated from tourism to Yellowstone National Park

3-Apr-2024

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Charlotte Bhaskar
PLOS
mjpress@plos.org

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APA:
PLOS. (2024, April 3). Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces more than a billion kilos of CO2 emissions annually. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8J4DVM7L/tourism-to-yellowstone-national-park-produces-more-than-a-billion-kilos-of-co2-emissions-annually.html
MLA:
"Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces more than a billion kilos of CO2 emissions annually." Brightsurf News, Apr. 3 2024, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8J4DVM7L/tourism-to-yellowstone-national-park-produces-more-than-a-billion-kilos-of-co2-emissions-annually.html.