About 10% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions come from farming. Researchers are working on ways to address this piece of the global warming puzzle.
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Meat uses a lot of resources - between three and ten times as much as plants for the same amount of protein. The rich world might be slowly losing its taste for meat, but the developing world isn’t.
Going vegetarian might help reduce your personal footprint - but it won’t save the climate. Richard Eckard explains.
The Michigan State University has developed a technology which separates the elements in cow manure to make water and fertiliser…
Last year Japanese scientists announced they had for the first time extracted gas from offshore deposits of methane hydrate, an ice-like substance made of natural gas (methane) trapped inside water crystals…
Melting permafrost in places like Sweden could result in even higher levels of carbon emissions than predicted, accelerating…
A newly discovered microbe could contribute large amounts of methane to the atmosphere, playing a significant role in future…
While the prime minister has shown unequivocal support for exploiting Britain’s shale gas reserves, stating the country should “go all out for shale gas”, more cautious voices point to possible effects…
The joint NASA-ESA Cassini space probe, exploring Saturn and her moons, has revealed extraordinary lakes and seas of liquid methane around the north pole of Titan. Scientists associated with the Cassini…
The USA’s methane emissions, a type of greenhouse gas, have been found to be severely underestimated according to new research…
Methanosaeta, one of the earth’s most prominent methane producing micro-organisms, converts CO2 to methane by making electrical…
Greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost have been greatly underestimated in current climate models, according to…
Atmospheric methane emissions increased after 2006, and a recent study conducted by a team of international scientists, including…
Different moorland plants, particularly heather and cotton grass, can strongly influence climate warming effects on greenhouse…
A new micro-organism has been discovered that could help tackle greenhouse gas emissions. University of Queensland researchers…
Arctic sea ice is retreating, with projections suggesting that the summer months will be substantially ice-free within the next few years. Nations are waking up to the possibilities for shipping and resource…
Researchers in the US have done the first ever whole-country study of methane emissions. In some cases they found higher…
Yesterday, the Federal government issued new recommendations for methods to estimate emissions from conventional gas and from coal seam gas production. So what did we learn? The proposals seek to refine…
The Carbon Farming Initiative is about to provide incentives for dairy farmers to reduce emissions from their milking cows. Emissions will be reduced by changing the cows’ diet. The proposed new methodology…
The past is the key to the future. When snow falls on polar ice sheets, in Greenland and Antarctica for example, air is trapped between the snowflakes. Year after year, the snow compacts under its own…
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Research Group Leader, CSIRO
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Professor of Climate Sciences, Duke University
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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