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Climate impacts from farming are getting worse
2016-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As signs emerge that the global energy sector is beginning to rein in what once had been unbridled levels of climate-changing pollution, new United Nations figures show pollution from farming is continuing to get worse. Greenhouse gases released from the growing of crops and livestock directly increased by a little more than 1 percent in 2014, compared with a year prior, the newly updated data shows. Dairy cows are a major source of methane pollution, which heats the atmosphere faster than...
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