Sentences with phrase «potent greenhouse gas methane»

Ocean critters produce the highly potent greenhouses gases methane and nitrous oxide.

Meanwhile, researchers were showing that besides soil and water contamination, hog CAFOs emit high volumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane (pound for pound, hog manure produces twice the methane of cattle manure) and ammonia, which has been linked to respiratory ailments.

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

Animals like the mammoths, which adapted to live in steppe habitats, prevent tree growth and turn and stomp topsoil, exposing the earth underneath to the cold winds of the region, thereby lowering the ground temperature and preserving the underlying permafrost (and the potent greenhouse gas methane locked within it).

Some scientists have suggested that global warming could melt frozen ground in the Arctic, releasing vast amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, greatly amplifying global warming.

Methane mischief: misleading commentary published in Nature A catastrophic release of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the Arctic could cause a sudden warming with massive economic consequences says a commentary published in the esteemed scientific journal Nature Wednesday.

Under Trump, the gap between what was promised and what will be achieved has widened as the federal government seeks to revoke the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, to roll back limits on the emission of the potent greenhouse gas methane and to reverse energy - efficiency policies.

Strong ocean currents promote the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the Arctic, according to new research, shedding light on how they may contribute to climate change.

A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) may have cracked the elusive paradox involving the potent greenhouse gas methane that baffled many marine chemists for so long.

The lakes may also be storing large volumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane, frozen in a form called methane hydrates.

Fracking emits large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane and other air pollutants.

On the one hand, science has to deal with potential feedback trends unleased by global warming — such the run - away melting of the arctic permafrost releasing massive amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane — that are essentially «unknowable», Pindyck wrote.

The environmental impacts of Amazon hydropower projects are many and varied, from inundating primary rainforest, driving deforestation, and releasing the potent greenhouse gas methane, to interrupting long - distance aquatic migrations, altering sediment flows and attenuating flood cycles.

A catastrophic release of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the Arctic could cause a sudden warming with massive economic consequences says a commentary published in the esteemed scientific journal Nature Wednesday.