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Chinese Farmers Paid to Convert Livestock Wastes to Fuel and Fertilizer

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 19:11:15 +0000

China encourages its farmers to develop animal waste processing facilities, which allow conversion of wastes to fertilizer and fuel, by giving them incentives. This is to address the country’s problem on increasing animal waste due to the rapid growth of poultry and hog farming. The objective is to avoid both the release of hazardous pollution […]

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Excessive Fertilizer Use Increasing Warming in China

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:47:40 +0000

While in the past six decades, fertilizers were able to contribute half of the crops produced and caused a cooling effect as they increased carbon sinks, the situation now has reversed as they increase warming in China. Reduction of fertilizer use would decrease this warming effect without affecting crop and carbon sinks production. This is […]

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Sugarcane Crops Showed to Cool Climate

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:29:53 +0000

Sugarcane has been touted as a sort of an inefficient biofuel crop, since it consumes a lot of water and fertilizer, and hence its carbon footprint is not the best for such a purpose, compared to algae, for example. Sugarcane, on the other hand, can help cool the climate in a certain way.

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