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PostMay 11, 2021

A nonprofit promised to preserve wildlife. Then it made millions claiming it could cut down trees

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The Massachusetts Audubon Society has managed its land as wildlife habitat for years. A new article by Lisa Song and James Temple in the MIT Technology Review discusses how the carbon credits it sold may have fueled climate change. 

Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/10/1024751/carbon-credits-massachusetts-audubon-california-logging-co2-emissions-increase/

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