The study found that anthropogenic emissions of nitrous oxide increased by 40 % from 1980 to 2020, significantly accelerating climate change

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 entered the atmosphere mainly through agricultural practices, according to a new report. The Global Carbon Project. Agricultural production accounted for 74 % of anthropogenic nitrous oxide emissions in 2010 — attributed primarily to the use of chemical fertilizers and animal waste on cropland — according to the report, "Global Nitric Oxide Budget 2024," led by Boston College researchers and published in the journal Earth System Science Data . (Boston College, more at phys.org)