Climate-Ready Crops Being Engineered, Patented: Three huge agro-tech firms – BASF of Germany, Syngenta of Switzerland and Monsanto of St. Louis – have filed for patents on nearly two-thirds of the climate-related gene families, according to the ETC Group, a farmer activist group – The Washington Post.
CO2 Continues to Rise, But So Does Methane: According to a new report from US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, CO2 levels are a 10 million year high. Meanwhile, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, increased in the atmosphere for the first time in a decade – New Scientist.
Controversial Planet Saver – Burying Trees: In an essay in the journal ChemSusChem, two researchers from the University of Greifswald propose that photosynthesis is the only possible way to capture enough carbon to mitigate climate change and want to plant one billion hectares of forest and ten bury the wood – Science Daily.
Energy ROIs – Wave & Geothermal: This is the last installment in a series on Energy Return on Investment from Professor Charles Hall’s EROI Workshop at SUNY. Make sure to check his take on passive solar, photovoltaic, wind and hydro-electric too – The Oil Drum.
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