You are browsing the archives of greenhouse Gases.

The world’s wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming “carbon bomb” if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said [...]

The issue of hormones present in cows milk has always been a debatable one. However, in a recent industry study, injecting cows with a growth hormone known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) designed to increase their milk production is said to be environmentally friendly. And how is that so?