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Feeding Antibiotics to Farm Animals May Worsen Climate Change
2016-05-26 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: There may be another reason to discourage farmers from feeding antibiotics to livestock: global warming. A study published this week finds that when cattle were fed a common antibiotic, their manure produced even more methane than normal -- a potent global warming gas. The antibiotics do this by killing off bacteria that compete with methane-producing microbes, the researchers report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of antibiotics...
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20+ images from the Kansas farm tour
2016-05-25 12:22:00| Beef
This past spring, the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) hosted a farm tour, which was organized by Greenwood County CattleWomen. Nearly 100 consumers from the Wichita area participated in the educational event. read more
Great Barrier Reef: advisers call for cap on farm pollution
2016-05-25 06:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A cap on pollution from farms close to the Great Barrier Reef has been proposed by advisers to the Queensland government. The Great Barrier Reef water science taskforce, which advises the Queensland government on how to meet pollution targets on the reef, said sugar cane, grazing and other sectors should be given pollution load limits for their industries in each catchment. It also called for incentives such as auctions for pollution reduction, greater monitoring and regulation, along with significantly...
The ESAs MELiSSA zero-g farm could make life sustainable in space
2016-05-24 16:01:06| Extremetech
The ESA has an ambitious plan to make life sustainable in space. To feed astronauts for years, we may have to build an entire ecosystem in space.
Evidence of Fish Farm Disease Detected in BC
2016-05-24 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tyee: Evidence of a heart disease that has devastated commercial fish farms in Norway has been detected in British Columbia. The Strategic Salmon Health Initiative announced last week that it detected a "potential" Heart and Skeletal Muscle Inflammation (HSMI) in farmed Atlantic salmon samples collected from one B.C. fish farm located on the Johnstone Strait between 2013 and 2014. The disease, which is not considered a health hazard for humans, did not kill the farmed Atlantic salmon. But the costly...
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