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The Unlikeliest Heroes in the Battle Against Climate Change? Dung Beetles
The cow poop-crunching insects play a small but vibrant role in reducing greenhouse gases, scientists report.
In this edition of Toilet Tuesday, take a journey out into nature's vast bathroom:
The world's climatologists should put down their thermometers and take a minute to thank Atte Penttilä for absorbing the bullet on this one: After spending extensive time in the pastures of northern Europe, Penttilä and his associates can now report greenhouse-gas emissions are affected by, of all things, beetles rummaging around in cow dung.