GHGs

September 28 2011
Special Issue: Greenhouse Gases in Animal Agriculture - Finding a Balance between Food and Emissions

This is a special issue of Animal Feed Science and Technology, Volumes 166-167, Pages 1-796 (23 June 2011), edited by T.A. McAllister, K.A. Beauchemin, X. Hao, S. McGinn and P.H. Robinson.

The papers in this edition are clustered...

May 23 2011
Carbon Trust study on international carbon flows

The Carbon Trust has conducted a fascinating analysis of how world-wide trade and consumption is driving international carbon flows. The findings are given in a series of linked reports, one focusing on international carbon flows overall, and the...

March 16 2011
Population adiposity and climate change

In the paper, Edwards P and Roberts I (2009) "Population adiposity and climate change" Int. J. Epidemiol. 38 (4), find that BMI has environmental benefits.

March 16 2011
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Reducing GHG emissions from agriculture

On the 28 February / 1 March the Royal Society held a meeting on the theme Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

March 10 2011
Contribution of Fish to the Marine Inorganic Carbon Cycle

Oceanic production of calcium carbonate is conventionally attributed to marine plankton (coccolithophores and foraminifera).

This report finds that marine fish produce precipitated carbonates within their intestines and excrete these at high...

March 10 2011
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Worldwatch Report: Farming Fish for the Future

The Worldwatch Institute has published a report on aquaculture and a short summary of it is available here.

March 10 2011
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Global salmon LCA project

The Global Salmon LCA was a joint initiative of Dalhousie University, Ecotrust and SIK – The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology - which formally ran from 2005-2008 but publications reporting results continue to emerge.

March 10 2011
A LCA of frozen cod fillets' environmental impacts

Although transport is clearly a major issue in the life cycle of some fish products, this paper finds that the actual fishing stage of the life cycle is by far and away the most significant from a GHG emissions perspective.

March 3 2011
Edible entomological environmentalism

This should get you out into the garden.  If you don’t want to get your hands dirty, you can buy a half dozen chocolate coated ants or worms at Fortnum and Mason’s for a mere £7.
 
Ooonincx G A B, van Itterbeeck J, Heetkamp M J W, van den...

March 3 2011
Biomass production for energy and its environmental impacts

This paper, Gilbert P, Thornley P and Riche A B (2011).  The influence of organic and inorganic fertiliser application rates on UK biomass crop sustainability Biomass and Bioenergy, in press, highlights firstly, the GHG reduction potential of...