Some say animals
emit less methane than we've been told — and that herds can be managed to restore the environment.
In 2002, scientists noticed that rice plants with more grain also
emit less methane.
Not exact matches
As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating
less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock
emit large volumes of
methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.
Moreover, the soils of the mammoth steppe were drier and
emitted less of the greenhouse gas
methane.
And an efficient, well run incinerator
emits less carbon than is produced by letting the rubbish decompose and burning the
methane.
«Luckily, the opposite is also true: if we
emit less greenhouse gas and the temperature drops, we gain a bonus in the form of
less methane production.
For example, burning compressed natural gas
emits roughly 30 percent
less CO2 than burning diesel but, if the new
methane leakage estimates are true, the practice ends up being worse for climate change.
Natural gas does
emit less GHG than coal on a per Btu basis when burned, but the analysis assumes there are no
methane leaks from both conventional and unconventional wells.
Of the fossil fuels, natural gas
emits less carbon dioxide than oil (though the gas itself,
methane, is a powerful greenhouse gas and there are serious leakage problems with its use).
Natural gas (
methane (CH 4)-RRB- is the cleanest burning,
emitting less carbon dioxide than the others (coal and oil).
Per gram of cricket protein, compared to beef, they need 2,000 times
less water, 12 times
less feed, and
emit 80 times
less methane.
«Cows
emit a massive amount of
methane through belching, with a
lesser amount through flatulence,» according to How Stuff Works.