Greentown Labs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. While the demand is primarily in Europe and Asia currently, Lignium Energy’s team says that the United States is expected to meaningfully shift from relying on coal to utilizing biomass. “We

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Startups Energy Energy South America 98

Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Manure is also rich in nitrogen, it points out, but intensive farming models which separate livestock from crops - for example, the reliance on soy from South America as feed for cattle in Europe - make it impractical to use natural manure as a primary source of nitrogen, leading to greater reliance on synthetic products.

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Soil Climate change Agriculture South America 80

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon is fed on other fish — small, oily, and nutritious pelagic species — which are harvested by the tonne off the West African coastline and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil for export to Europe and Asia. In 2023, I will be watching what happens with oil and gas fields in Alaska, the Arctic, Africa, and South America.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 86

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 87

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

According to the Good Food Institute, in 2021 cultivated meat companies attracted $140m of investment in Europe. Similarly, chickens in the UK are largely fed on soya which is often imported from South America. warming unless urgent action is taken to tackle methane-intensive foods, such as red meat.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture 50

Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. Lot’s of Methane.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As if natural gas, which is primarily methane — the second most abundant greenhouse gas behind carbon dioxide and a major contributor to climate change — isn’t bad for the climate. Granholm’s line that gas is cleaner ignores the fact that depending on how much methane is leaked, fossil gas can be as bad for the climate as coa l.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Climate change Methane 97