Aberystwyth leads climate change battle
Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences is heading a £3.9 million project to improve our understanding of the amounts of damaging methane that are emitted by agriculture and the value of the industry’s attempts to control it. Working with teams from six other institutions across the UK, IBERS’ scientists will be assessing the amount of methane being released into the atmosphere by agricultural livestock and generating data that allow more accurate estimates of emissions throughout the UK. “The fact that IBERS has been chosen to lead this work is recognition of the Institute’s international reputation,” said IBERS Director, Professor Wayne Powell. “Our world-class scientists have been working for many years on various projects to reduce methane emissions and, as well as working at the cutting edge of the new genomic technologies, we have more than 90 years’ experience of plant and animal breeding.” The work on methane is part of a broader £1...