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High-yield rice breed emits up to 70% less methane
Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, and these emissions are expected to increase with global warming and as the human population continues to grow. Now, ...
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Rice paddies, like cows, spew methane. A new variety makes them a lot less gassy.
Rice plants are a big source of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts ...
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Rice variant slashes planet-warming methane emissions by 70 per cent
Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...
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Rice paddies, like cows, spew methane. A new variety makes them a lot less gassy.
Consequently, livestock is responsible for 30 percent of humanity’s methane emissions. But it’s not just bovine belching that makes agriculture drive so much warming. Rice cultivation ...
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High-yield rice breed emits up to 70% less methane
Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global ... chemical compounds released by rice roots that determine how much methane the plants emit. On February 3 in Molecular Plant, they ...
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The simple formula to cut your diet’s carbon footprint
Mike Berners-Lee’s UK carbon data charts The charts add ... has considered farming practices, the agricultural machinery required to harvest crops, methane burps, transport needed to get food ...
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Re-wilding agricultural land to avoid methane and exploding cows
By Gwynne Dyer – 'At least half the current agricultural ... a hundred kilos of methane per year. That’s most unfortunate because methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, responsible for between ...
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High-Yield Rice Cuts Methane Emissions by 70%
Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions ... Now, scientists have identified chemical compounds released by rice roots that determine how much methane the plants emit ...
10 days with the US Coast Guard on the new Arctic front lines
As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...