Nitrous oxide is also called nitrous protoxide ... For example, SF6 is found in electrical transformers. It has a greenhouse effect 24,000 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year period.

Nitrous oxide makes up about 6% of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, while carbon dioxide makes up about 80%, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Although there's ...

However, nitrous oxide is also a potent greenhouse gas ... and subsequent atmospheric effects should be further explored in more detailed models. For now, Ravishankara and colleagues have set ...

[65] A greenhouse effect (prevention of loss of infrared energy) is only an issue (and a trivial one, at that, relative to other sources such as fertilizer) with nitrous oxide. Its high MAC (i.e ...

Emissions of nitrous oxide—a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane—continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10 million metric tons flowed into the atmosphere ...

Iowa’s farmlands are hotbeds for greenhouse gases, with nitrous oxide accounting for 59% of agricultural emissions in 2022.

Most everyone is familiar with carbon dioxide (CO2), but methane and nitrous oxide are considerable contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are more cost-effective to reduce. To further ...

Researchers are hoping to start measuring nitrous oxide emissions over hundreds of kilometres near Yorkton, Sask., with the goal of reducing greenhouse gases. Nitrogen fertilizer is an ...