A slight change in a single gene of rice can avoid the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions each year as all the wind turbines in the world, the same as 15 nuclear power plants. Work led by Dr. Christer Jansson at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that transferring one gene from barley to rice lowered the methane (CH4 or natural gas) emissions from rice paddies to almost zero.
As the COP21 climate change talks get underway today in Paris, it’s nice to see real progress on a critical front that doesn’t get enough attention – food and climate.
Agriculture is a primary source of greenhouse gas emissions, especially as humans practice it nowadays, and emissions are on the rise. Over the last ten years, agriculture, forestry and other land uses have emitted over 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent/year: read more on Forbes
As the COP21 climate change talks get underway today in Paris, it’s nice to see real progress on a critical front that doesn’t get enough attention – food and climate.
Agriculture is a primary source of greenhouse gas emissions, especially as humans practice it nowadays, and emissions are on the rise. Over the last ten years, agriculture, forestry and other land uses have emitted over 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent/year: read more on Forbes
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