Curtsy: Jules C.Update: don't tell the Crunchy-Cons, but you know what else is warming up the planet? Organic gardening.
This is because worms used in composting emit nitrous oxide - a greenhouse gas 296 times more powerful, molecule for molecule, than carbon dioxide.Organic farms are like landfills to the planet.
Jim Frederickson, senior research fellow at the Open University's faculty of technology, said: "We know from research in Germany that a third of the nitrous oxide emissions coming from the soil are associated with worms."What we found from looking at large worm composting systems is that their emissions could be comparable in global warming potential to the methane from landfill sites."
Curtsy: Philo.
