Combined Science GCSE
Agricultural emissions and waste decomposition
What Agricultural emissions and waste decomposition means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Agriculture increases methane through livestock digestion and rice paddy fields, and can release nitrous oxide from fertilisers, while organic waste decaying without oxygen in landfill sites produces methane.
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