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Treating cows with antibiotics doubles dung methane emissions

2016-05-25 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: Antibiotics given to cattle can have far-reaching effects in an ecosystem, changing the make-up of microbes in the guts of dung beetles and increasing methane emissions from faeces. Researchers have analysed dung and the ecosystem it supports from cattle given a course of the antibiotic tetracycline. Such antibiotics are commonly given to livestock to prevent diseases and stimulate growth, even though this can lead to the development of drug-resistant bacteria. The team found that the dung...

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