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Climate change and crop production: contributions, impacts, and adaptations
... less than 10% of Canada's total. Agriculture is a major producer of methane and nitrous oxide (21 and 310 times more effective at heat trapping than CO2, respectively), but a minor ... be through new cropping systems and crops that reduce net GHG production by emitting less nitrous oxide, increasing soil organic matter content, and allowing production of bio-products such as bio-fuels ...
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OREP - Maximizing crop yields while minimizing environmental impact
... nitrogen run-off from fields can contaminate local water supplies or enter the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, one of the so-called ‘greenhouse’ gases. "Giving producers the opportunity to use nitrogen more ...
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A brief history of health and medicine by John Silveira Issue #100
... the 19th century that the first “chemical” anesthetics were used. These included ether, chloroform, and nitrous oxide. And the first practitioners were usually not physicians, but dentists. Eventually, new anesthetics would be ...
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Current Events - Find Articles
... gases Water vapor is the most common greenhouse gas, followed by carbon dioxide, ozone, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, chlorofluorocarbons, and ... 4/21/06 · More from publication · Save View more ...
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GreenPatio.Com - Why keep natural indoor plants.
... clean the air around us. They reduce the amount of formaldehyde, benzene, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide present in that air indoors. Modern day homes have a exotic interiors made up of ...
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The alkali sink plant community of California.
... factor that may favor the growth of the weeds is nitrogen, in the form of nitrous oxide (from car exhaust) from air pollution which is carried into the soil as rainfall and ...
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RRes - AEN Division - Nutrient Dynamics
... Edinburgh University and the Royal Agricultural College. Fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide above a range of land uses are being measured at three sites around ... example, changing from ploughing to minimum tillage would decrease carbon dioxide fluxes but increase nitrous oxide fluxes. Eddy Covariance Equipment RothLime Rothamsted Lime Requirement Model (RothLime) (New: October 2002) ...
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The Simple Act of Planting a Tree: Forward
... dioxide, due to the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gases such as chlorofluorocarbons and nitrous oxide. With a business-as-usual scenario, the buildup of these gases in the atmosphere is ...
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The Simple Act of Planting a Tree: Chapter 1
... for us. However, with the overabundance of greenhouse gases, which include water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide, as well as carbon dioxide, the natural blanket surrounding the earth is thickening and, as ...
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