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Methane Emissions

Eco Etiquette: Is Recycling Bad For The Environment?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Methane Emissions, Landfills, Carbon Emissions, Green Advice, Recycling Myths, Composting, Greenhouse Gases, Green Living, Global Warming, Landfill Space, Environment, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

I have been hearing reports that recycling is bad. That the costs of shipping, mostly the carbon emissions from them, counteract any benefit from recy...

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What To Do, What To Do About Gas From Livestock Poop

New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Methane Emissions, Eating Matters, United Nations, Environment, Poznan, Un, Methane Capture, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Green News

The cows and pigs dotting these flat green plains in the southern Netherlands create a bucolic landscape. But looked at through the lens of greenhouse...

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The Methane Bomb is Ticking: Here's an Energy Plan to Defuse It

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Methane Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Obama Energy Plan, Global Warming, Green News
Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte

Why is a sudden increase in atmospheric methane particularly frightening? The standard assumption until now has been: control global warming by turning off the human spigot.

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Scandal Surrounding The FDA, Cows' Tooting, And A Monsanto Hormone

Greenwash Brigade | Heidi Siegelbaum | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Cows Belching, Cow Fart Scandal, Cows Farting, Methane Emissions, Cows, Fda, Cornell University, Climate Change, Posilac, Posilac Paper, Monsanto, Green News

What a riot! How complex is a story about: * The genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, somatotropin, trade name Posilac... * which is...

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Cows That Chew Cashews May Burp 90 Percent Less Methane

Reuters | Posted 06.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Methane Emissions, Cutting Methane Emissions, Cashew Oil Methane, Cows, Cows Cashew Oil, Cashew Oil, Cows Burping, Methane, Green News

TOKYO (Reuters) - The cast offs from snacking on cashews may help fight global warming caused by animals that belch methane. Tests in Japan have show...

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The Venus Syndrome (Part One)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Methane Emissions, Cows, Global Warming, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

It turns out that there is another greenhouse gas, methane, that shows promise for becoming the doomsday gas.

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