earthworms Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 02:59:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Earthworms Stimulate Carbon Sequestration https://www.greenoptimistic.com/earthworms-stimulate-carbon-sequestration-20131017/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/earthworms-stimulate-carbon-sequestration-20131017/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2013 02:58:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42664 After being villainized in global warming studies and accused of being major contributors to climate change, it turns out earthworms might actually be a blessing in disguise. Approximately 20% of global CO2 emissions and 66% of nitrous oxide emissions come from soil. Emissions are produced by a number of natural biological processes involving plant roots and subterranean microorganisms. Scientists […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/earthworms-stimulate-carbon-sequestration-20131017/feed/ 0 42664 Earthworms Found Guilty of Increased Greenhouse Gas Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/earthworms-greenhouse-gas-20130206/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/earthworms-greenhouse-gas-20130206/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:58:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32744 If it’s not cows, it’s earthworms destroying our planet and its frail ecosystem. That’s what a team of researchers from the Netherlands, U.S. and Canada has decided by studying the results of 237 experiments involving earthworms – all of them. What they got was that (more or less) 20% of the global CO2 emissions and […]

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