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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Amy Westervelt

Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling

An orange Elsevier logo sign is seen on a brick and stone building the company occupies in Missouri.
Elsevier is one of a few companies that publish peer-reviewed climate research, but it also consults with industry to find oil and gas reserves. Photograph: Kristoffer Tripplaar/Alamy

Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian can reveal.

Elsevier, a Dutch company behind many renowned peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Lancet and Global Environmental Change, is also one of the top publishers of books aimed at expanding fossil fuel production.

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