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Letters: "Methane from farming is not inherently bad"

This week from 草榴社区 Guardian readers: Jesse A. Bostock, Staffordshire, discusses how methane is wrongly portrayed as harmful

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Letters: "Methane from farming is not inherently bad"

When organic matter from plants, grass and trees decomposes 鈥� in the absence of oxygen 鈥� methane (CH4) is formed. Its other name is marsh gas, which is produced in peat bogs, wetlands and by termites when...

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