PLANET OF THE CLAMS: I had me a great clam and veggie chowder over the weekend. Then, don’t I go and read that those same tasty bivalves are out to get us by quietly adding poisonous gases to our already troubled atmosphere. If it’s not cows, it’s clams. What have they got against us?
Just last week, the BBC (bbc.com) highlighted a study released by elite Euro scientists indicating that clams in the Baltic Sea are emitting as much gas as 20,000 dairy cows.
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