Kangaroo farming would cut greenhouse gases: study
Farming kangaroos instead of sheep and cattle in Australia could cut by almost a quarter the greenhouse gases produced by grazing livestock, which account for 11% of the nation's annual emissions, said a new study. >> Source: Reuters
Strange sex life of melons exposed
A French study reveals the genetic underpinnings to the curious reproductive system of melons, called andromonoecy, in which individual plants carry both male and bisexual (hermaphroditic) flowers. >> Source: Telegraph
Military wants to lead US into the green
Pentagon officials say their green energy efforts will help America fight global warming. >> Source: Reuters
China's smogs have surprise climate benefit
A British team has been adding sulphate to laboratory rice paddies in an effort to mimic the effect of acid rain on Asia's most important food crop. This equivalent of typical acid rain reduced methane emissions from flooded paddies by up to 25%, says Vincent Gauci of the Open University in Milton Keynes in the UK. >> Source: New Scientist
Google PageRank could help keep ecosystems running
According to Stefano Allesina of UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Google's PageRank algorithm can be used by ecologists to figure out which species are most crucial for an ecosystem to function. >> Source: Treehugger
EU says UN carbon market link to start October
The European Union's executive commission plans to link an EU market in carbon emissions permits with a related UN trading scheme in the first half of October, it said in a statement on Thursday. >> Source: Reuters
UN to tighten rules on earning carbon offsets
The UN's climate change agency on Wednesday proposed to make it more difficult for speculators to earn carbon offsets from emissions-cutting projects which were already profitable. >> Source: Environmental News Network
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