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Does feeding livestock antibiotics reduce their methane output?
There seems little evidence that it does, for if it did it would hardly enhance the growth of the livestock. It’s the methanogenic bacteria that enable ruminant digestion in the first place!
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Why does monoculture cause lower microbiome diversity and health in bees and how can we fix it?
This is a good, big but complex question. One issue honey bees face are viral and bacterial pathogen attacks and the low diversity in their microbiome is believed to be a contributory factor. Viral ...
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