{"id":230384,"date":"2023-03-10T19:40:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230384"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:40:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:10:43","slug":"antibiotic-drugs-administered-on-livestock-cut-carbon-in-soil-and-affect-climate-says-iisc-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antibiotic-drugs-administered-on-livestock-cut-carbon-in-soil-and-affect-climate-says-iisc-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic drugs administered on livestock cut carbon in soil and affect climate, says IISc study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c\u2018Antibiotic drugs administered on livestock cut carbon in soil and affect climate, says IISc study\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 10th March 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers at the Centre for Ecological Sciences(CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have found that grazing by livestock leads to lower carbon storage in soil compared to grazing by wild herbivores.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About the study<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study was conducted to compare the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">characteristics of livestock such as sheep and cattle with their wild relatives such as the yak and ibex in terms of their respective impact on soil carbon stocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers found that grazing by livestock leads to lower carbon storage in soil compared to grazing by wild herbivores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This difference appears to be due to the use of veterinary antibiotics such as tetracycline on livestock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers said that when released into the soil through dung and urine, these antibiotics alter the microbial communities in the soil in ways that are detrimental to sequestering carbon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance of this study: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This study highlights connections among human land use, antibiotics, microbes, soils and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201c\u2018Antibiotic drugs administered on livestock cut carbon in soil and affect climate, says IISc study\u201d published in The Hindu on 10th March 2023. What is the News? Researchers at the Centre for Ecological Sciences(CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have found that grazing by livestock leads to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antibiotic-drugs-administered-on-livestock-cut-carbon-in-soil-and-affect-climate-says-iisc-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antibiotic drugs administered on livestock cut carbon in soil and affect climate, says IISc study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-230384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704201657},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}