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Researchers propose a unified, scalable framework to measure agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

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Increased government investment in climate change mitigation is prompting agricultural sectors to find reliable methods for measuring their contribution to climate change. With that in mind, scientists have proposed a supercomputing solution to help measure individual farm field-level greenhouse gas emissions.

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