Unexpected microbes fighting harmful greenhouse gas

Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - 14:02 in Earth & Climate

The environment has a more formidable opponent than carbon dioxide. Another greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, is 300 times more potent and also destroys the ozone layer each time it is released into the atmosphere through agricultural practices, sewage treatment and fossil fuel combustion.

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