Sentences with phrase «animal dung»

Farmers in the Near East — what is today Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and neighboring countries — began cultivating plants and herding animals about 8000 B.C.E., but there are no signs that they used animal dung for anything other than as fuel for fires.

So, for each person who might die from global warming, about 210 people die from health problems that result from a lack of clean water and sanitation, from breathing smoke generated by burning dirty fuels (such as dried animal dung) indoors, and from breathing polluted air outdoors.

Many animal behaviorists believe that the modern dog's predisposition to rolling in animal dung dates back to the habits of its wild ancestors.

On the menu are worms, beetles and weeds, and he drinks from a frozen pond, filled with animal dung, to survive.

Now, by sifting through ancient piles of animal dung, researchers have found independent evidence that the region was moist enough to support agriculture, providing a more detailed history of the region's shifting climate.

Nevertheless, it may not be intuitively obvious that spreading animal dung around plants is good for them, and archaeologists had found no evidence for the practice earlier than about 3000 years ago.

In addition to fossilized plant and animal bodily remains, paleontologists study fossilized animal footprints and trails, and even fossilized animal dung (called coprolite).

Before laying eggs, these clever birds scatter animal dung all about the entrance to their subterranean lairs; the result?

Forests are destroyed and villages start to use crop residues and animal dung for fuel.

Then smooth, round, fist - size river stones are heated in an open fire made from dried animal dung.

Another explanation for Sandgathe and Dibble's findings, she speculates, is that Neanderthals might have had to rely on animal dung, instead of wood, for fuel during cold and relatively treeless periods.

A fungus known as Sporormiella has to pass through the digestive system to complete its life cycle, and its spores are found in animal dung.

Rising awareness about black carbon Half of the world's population — roughly 3 billion people — cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass material like wood and animal dung, over open fires or rudimentary stoves, according to U.S. EPA.

«Using computer modeling he developed over 20 years, Jacobson has found that carbonaceous fuel soot emissions (which lead to respiratory illness, heart disease and asthma) have resulted in 1.5 million premature deaths each year, mostly in the developing world where wood and animal dung are used for cooking.

Around 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using open fires and simple stoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung, and crop waste) and coal.

Add to that that 67 % of India's population rely on wood or animal dung to cook.

What keeps soils alive, and productive, is the compost or humus of leaf litter, animal dung, withered roots and other decaying vegetation in the first metre or so of topsoil: this in turn feeds an invisible army of tiny creatures that recycle the nutrient elements for the next generation of plant life.

And in countries like Kenya or Ethiopia where wood is scarce, animal dung is used.

The researchers found that the burning of household biofuels — primarily wood and animal dung for home heating and cooking — contribute the second most warming.

Black carbon The soot that results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels, and biomass (wood, animal dung, etc.).

A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung) reduce indoor air pollution by 80 %, reduce fuel usage by 50 % and decrease cooking times by 40 %.

For the Himalayas region, the researchers found evidence of the burning of both fossil fuels and biomass, which includes plants and animal dung, coming from northern India's Indo - Gangetic Plain.

Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.