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Environmental & Sustainability Good News You May Have Missed in 2020

Meghan Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, YouTube Channel December 31, 2020August 21, 20212020, Climate Action, conservation, Denmark, endangered species, Environmental sustainability, food scraps, Gender Equality, Great American Outdoors Act, inclusivity, landfill, LGBTQ+ curriculum, New Year, period poverty, Scotland, sea turtles, Spotted Owl, sustainable development, Vermont

Welcome back to the Hive for our last video installment of 2020. From kicking off the year with unprecedented wildfires in Australia to a global pandemic to fights for racial equality, contentious elections, worsening effects of climate change around the world, and now closing it out as the COVID19 pandemic continues to take lives and hold our lives hostage, we won’t be sorry to see the last of 2020. And while there’s no doubt it hasn’t been easy to look on the bright side, we wanted to share with you just a few of the environmental and sustainability successes of a year that might seem anything but successful.

Methane & Global Warming

Meghan and Ben Climate Science, Global Warming May 12, 2020May 12, 2020agriculture, atmosphere, compost, composting, emissions, EPA, GHG emissions, Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, greenhouse gases, GWP, landfill, methane, methane leaks, waste management, water vapor

Police of a little-noticed 2018 methane leak at an Exxon Mobil site in Ohio was one of the worst in recent memory, outpacing the methane emissions from the entire oil and gas industries of many countries.

When we discuss climate change, most of our focus is on carbon dioxide or CO2 emissions. But why don’t we talk about other heat trapping gases such as Methane (CH4), Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Nitrous Oxide (N2O)? The short answer is there is more CO2 in the atmosphere than any other greenhouse gas at around 80% of total emissions. But did you know, methane is over 80 times more potent than CO2?