EARTH SCIENCE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
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Question
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Carbon dioxide
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Methane
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Water Vapor
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Nitrous Oxide
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Detailed explanation-1: -The industry is a significant source of emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25 times that of carbon dioxide.
Detailed explanation-2: -Crops only take up, on average, about half of the nitrogen they get from fertilizers. Much of the applied fertilizer runs off into waterways, or gets broken down by microbes in the soil, releasing the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.
Detailed explanation-3: -Landfill gas contains many different gases. Methane and carbon dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. The remaining 2 to 10% includes nitrogen, oxygen, ammonia, sulfides, hydrogen and various other gases. Landfill gases are produced when bacteria break down organic waste.