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Pipe upgrade project set to slash methane footprint of Britain's gas network

Business Green

The current iron pipes carry methane-based natural gas. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with global warming potential that is 21 times greater than that of CO2. We need to decarbonise the gas that we use.

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Beavers could be contributing to warming in the Arctic

AGreenLiving

When they form new bodies of water, they contribute to the thawing of frozen permafrost, which is a natural reservoir for methane and carbon dioxide. These beavers carry dead trees and shrubs to create dams, resulting in new lakes that flood the permafrost soil and release methane.

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

DeSmogBlog

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. .”

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Above the canopy: The peatland rainforest towers aiming to transform climate science

Business Green

In 2002, Sumatra's peatlands stored at least 18.8 Sumatra alone has seen 90 per cent of its rainforest destroyed or degraded, and between 1990 and 2002, around 1.1 One study found methane emissions were actually two-times lower from managed plantations than they were from natural, tropical peatland rainforest.

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