<p>&ldquo;Increased to levels unprecedented&rdquo; is how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) described the rise of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions in their report on the physical science basis of climate change in 2013. &nbsp;According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the atmospheric concentration of methane, a greenhouse gas some 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide has been steadily growing since the 18<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;century and has now increased by 50 percent compared to pre-industrial levels, exceeding 1,800 parts per billion.</p>
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<p>The DOE Office of Science supported the sheep rumen research at the DOE JGI.&nbsp; The NZ Fund for Global Partnerships in Livestock Emissions Research funded the work done in NZ to support the objectives of the Livestock Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, and the NZ Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre and the NZ Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium made the methane screening data and animal resources available.&nbsp; The data from the study complement the genomic sequences being generated from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hungate1000.org.nz/" target="_blank">Hungate1000 project</a>,&nbsp;which seeks to produce a reference set of rumen microbial genomes from cultivated rumen bacteria and archaea, together with representative cultures of rumen anaerobic fungi and ciliate protozoa.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://jgi.doe.gov/study-reveals-livestock-gut-microbes-contributing-greenhouse-gas-emissions/">Read full article</a> </strong>(external website)</p>
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