Yak Dung Is Making Climate Change Worse
Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in Slate and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
It gets pretty cold this time of year in Tibet. For centuries, the solution to this problem was a win-win: just burn that huge pile of yak dung that’s been accumulating all summer.
For millions of nomadic Tibetans, it’s a system that works. But that system comes at a hefty cost. Tibetan homes have some of the worst indoor air pollution in the world, and the soot the dung fires release is a big contributor to climate change.
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