methane
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Curiosity Rover Detected Methane On Mars In 2013, A New Analysis Confirms
NASA’s Curiosity rover shook the science community six years ago when it apparently detected traces of methane — an important chemical linked to lif e— on Mars. Researchers failed to confirm these results in the years that followed, but that’s now changed thanks to a re-analysis of data collected from orbit.
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Humans Are Pumping Even More Methane Into The Atmosphere Than We Realised
Researchers looking at air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice have found humans are putting more methane into the atmosphere through fossil fuel emissions than previously thought. Using ice cores from Antarctica’s Taylor Glacier, an international team of researchers – including New Zealand and Australian scientists – measured natural rates of methane in the atmosphere over…
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Scientists Feed Cows Onions To Make Them Stop Farting So Much Methane
Napoleon Dynamite takes a sip from a tall jar of milk, then sets it down next to two other jars. He points. “The defect in that one is bleach.” “That’s correct,” says a judge from FFA, the agricultural education organisation. He sips another. “This tastes like the cow got into an onion patch.” Almost the…
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Scientists Just Discovered A Major New Source Of Carbon Emissions
File this under bad news for humanity’s climate ambitions: The dams and reservoirs we use to harness ‘clean’ hydroelectric power and irrigate our crops apparently emit carbon. A lot of it. All told, man-made reservoirs release roughly a gigaton of heat-trapping greenhouse gases each year. That’s more than the entire nation of Canada.