Sentences with phrase «thus emissions of methane»

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Thus, methane emissions in this region are largely from rice cultivation and livestock, while human - made fertilizers are a major source of nitrous oxide.

Researchers at Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen discovered a microorganism that couples the reduction of iron to methane oxidation, and could thus be relevant in controlling greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

Their findings, published March 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that groundwater from the seasonal thawing of the «active layer» of soil above the permafrost adds significantly to the overall concentration of methane in the lake and thus influences the emission of this powerful greenhouse gas to the atmosphere.

Thus, if emissions of methane to the atmosphere were decreased then concentrations of methane in the atmosphere would soon begin to decrease.

In a Dot Earth post at the time, I focused on a fascinating case study from BP's gas fields in northern New Mexico, which showed that more careful use of the plunger systems can greatly cut gas loss (and thus methane emissions)-- and do so at a profit.

The impact of policies which involve trade - offs between one GHG and another (such as replacing coal with natural gas, which would reduce CO2 but might increase methane emissions) is especially uncertain, since current models of both gases» life - cycles (and thus their relative GWPs) may need to be revised in the future.

And while making wool requires little energy, it is associated with a lot of greenhouse gas emissions because sheep are ruminants (chew the cud) and thus produce methane.

Projecting the future water balance and moisture state of Arctic soils — and thus the ratio of CO2 to CH4 production — contributes the largest uncertainty in forecasting methane emissions from Arctic land surfaces.

I account for the time - dependence of the ozone response to methane and CO emissions, and thus these are affected by the discount rate and projected GDP and baseline mortality, which are the same as for climate - health impacts.