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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

Chemically similar to the fossil gas piped to our kitchens, RNG is instead generated from the breakdown of organic matter at landfills (the biggest current source), municipal sewage treatment plants, farm waste and similar sites. But for now, renewable natural gas (RNG) may offer a fix soonest. The first step? The urgency is growing.

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting rapidly, and Crutzen thought its time was up. The comparatively calm, warm conditions of the Holocene encouraged the development of agriculture. Crutzen, along with the diatom researcher Eugene F.

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

Chemically similar to the fossil gas piped to our kitchens, RNG is instead generated from the breakdown of organic matter at landfills (the biggest current source), municipal sewage treatment plants, farm waste and similar sites. But for now, renewable natural gas (RNG) may offer a fix soonest. The first step? 21-24.). "A

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U.S. rabbit populations contend with lethal virus, RHDV2

AGreenLiving

Department of Agriculture (USDA) deems RHDV2 as seriously contagious and nearly always fatal amongst domestic and wild rabbit species and their close relatives, hares and pikas. The USDA considers both RHDV1 and RHDV2 invasive pathogens, as they are not native to North America.