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Nitrous oxide levels are on the rise

Envirotec Magazine

Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and one of the main stratospheric ozone depleting substances on the planet. TgN y-1 (approximately 10% of the global total) between 2000–2005 and 2010–2015. According to new research, we are releasing more of it into the atmosphere than previously thought.

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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. But it wasn’t until 2000 that the idea really took off. Crutzen, along with the diatom researcher Eugene F.