Forget Farting Cows, Worry About Burping Worms

March 5, 2009 • 4:35 pm PST
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Apparently, underwater worms that eat sediment burp out nitrous oxide, which causes climate change. They are not a problem now, because they are tiny and release little gas, but it's a problem that's been getting worse due to nitrogen-rich fertilizer flooding our waters, which the worms like to eat, and which makes them burp more.

So now not only are all the cows we like to eat a problem, so are all the plants we like to grow. Worms, the new climage change criminal.

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