Flatulent cattle, we know, make global warming worse. Their belching and farting– and that of sheep and other ruminants – produces up to a quarter of the world’s emissions of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas, more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. But now another animal may leap to the rescue – the kangaroo.Snappily entitled Investigation of the microbial metabolism of carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the kangaroo foregut by stable isotope probing, a paper in the peer-reviewed ISME Journal carries the simple message – roo farts may save the world. Or rather, their absence
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