Cornell University unveils special chambers to measure methane emissions
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MYTWINTIERS— ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) — Cornell University on Monday announced the addition of special animal respirator chambers designed to study methane and other gas emissions from cows. According to the release, the new climate-controlled animal respiration stalls are the only of their kind in the U.S. and will go towards improving the sustainability and productivity of []
The Guardian—Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors. Use of enclosed combustors leaves regulators heavily reliant on oil and gas companies’ own flaring dataOil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed.Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany and Norway appear to have installed technology that could stop researchers from identifying methane, carbon dioxide emissions and pollutants at...
Washington Square News—Guest Essay: A call for a special University Senate meeting. Guest essays reflect opinions from writers beyond WSN. If you’d like to submit a guest essay for consideration, please email [email protected]. Forty-five minutes is all the time that administrators, faculty and student representatives spent at the last University Senate meeting on April 25, against the backdrop of 120 students and faculty arrested the previous Monday. A This story Guest Essay: A call for a special University Senate meeting appeared first on Washington Square News.
KTVZ—In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice. By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded. That and the giant drone, its wingspan similar to that of