The 2006 study of the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Centre in North Dakota found wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada and the U.S. comprise only 17 per cent of the landscape, but may detain twice as much carbon as surrounding agricultural soils employing no tillage management.
The study estimated that prairie wetlands have the potential to offset 2.4 per cent of the carbon emissions produced annually by the burning of fossil fuels in North America at 1990 levels.
New analysis sheds light on key tactics Monsanto used to distort science and spin the narrative in defense of its herbicide product.
Campaigners warn Brussels is poised to water down — or fatally delay — bold pesticide reduction targets.
TC Energy’s upgrade of its GTN XPress pipeline would result in a huge increase in methane gas volumes to the region. But it would undermine climate laws already on the books.
After a decade of losing hundreds of billions of dollars, the shale oil industry is finally making money — and running out of oil.
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