Wood mulch can help in climate change fight
In addition to looking nice, covering soil with wood mulch can actually help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, UBC research shows.
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News tagged with nitrous oxide emissions
El Nino cycle has a big effect on a major greenhouse gas
Nitrous oxide is commonly associated with laughing gas—the pleasantly benign vapor that puts patients at ease in the dentist's chair. But outside the dentist's office, the gas plays a serious role in the planet's warming ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2013
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Greenhouse gas source underestimated from the US Corn Belt, study shows
Estimates of how much nitrous oxide, a significant greenhouse gas and stratospheric ozone-depleting substance, is being emitted in the central United States have been too low by as much as 40 percent, a new study led by University ...
Environment
Jul 27, 2015
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How much fertilizer is too much for the climate?
Helping farmers around the globe apply more-precise amounts of nitrogen-based fertilizer can help combat climate change.
Environment
Jun 9, 2014
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Growing crops on organic soils increases greenhouse gas emissions
Growing agricultural crops on organic (peat) soils is not good for the climate. When organic soils are drained and cultivated the organic matter in the soil will decompose which leads to emissions of greenhouse gases. This ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2015
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Study reveals how soil bacteria are primed to consume greenhouse gas
New research has revealed that some soil bacteria are primed ready to consume the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide when they experience life without oxygen in the environment.
Environment
Oct 29, 2018
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Phasing out animal agriculture could potentially stabilize greenhouse gas levels for decades, according to new model
The worldwide phase out of animal agriculture, combined with a global switch to a plant-based diet, would effectively halt the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases for 30 years and give humanity more time to end its reliance ...
Environment
Feb 1, 2022
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Draining peatlands gives global rise to greenhouse laughing-gas emissions
Drained fertile peatlands around the globe are hotspots for the atmospheric emission of laughing-gas—a powerful greenhouse gas called nitrous oxide, which is partly responsible for global warming and destruction of the ...
Environment
Mar 28, 2018
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Biochar reduces nasty nitrous oxide emissions on farms
(Phys.org) —In the quest to decrease the world's greenhouse gases, Cornell scientists have discovered that biochar – a charcoal-like substance – reduces the nemesis nitrous oxide from agricultural soil on average by ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2013
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New study shows nitrous oxide now top ozone-depleting emission
Nitrous oxide has now become the largest ozone-depleting substance emitted through human activities, and is expected to remain the largest throughout the 21st century, NOAA scientists say in a new study.
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009
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