Methane is a particularly nasty greenhouse gas, 25x more potent than CO2. Enormous amounts of it have been trapped under permafrost … until now.
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Rice is an essential food for literally billions of people. But it requires enormous amounts of water and emits huge amounts of methane while growing, due to being underwater. However, a new system of growing rice, the SRI method, increases yields, uses much less water, and emits no methane. If the SRI method was [...] Sounds like a science fiction / horror movie polt, doesn’t it? The last barriers of ice trapping enormous amounts of methane underwater are apparently melting, so the methane is surfacing. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 20 times worse than carbon dioxide so this is seriously bad news indeed. |  | ||||
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