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Covering poop lagoons with a tarp could cut 80% of methane emissions from dairy farms

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Scientists recorded an 80% reduction in methane emissions of a dairy farm in California .

Methane is a greenhouse gas with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over 20 years .

A "digester" is a system that traps gases over manure ponds and converts them into fuel.

Emissions from livestock manure are the largest source of methane in California and the fourth largest in the United States .

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