You may know laughing gas from your visit to the dentist. But did you know that it's actually a climate killer – 300 times as potent as CO₂? Why is no one talking about it? And how can we to stop it?

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Credits:
Reporter: Anna Carthaus
Camera: Neven Hillebrands
Video Editor: Neven Hillebrands
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

Interviewees:
Eric Davidson, environmental scientist, University of Maryland
David Kanter, researcher, New York University
Caroline Orr, microbiologist, Teesside University
Steven Hall, environmental scientist, Iowa State University

Read More:
"A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
"Urgent abatement of industrial sources of nitrous oxide"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
"Stanford expert explains why laughing gas is a growing climate problem"
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/07/...
"The world's forgotten greenhouse gas"
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...
Nitrous oxide emissions 300 times more powerful than CO₂
https://theconversation.com/new-resea...
"Laughing Gas Is No Joke: The Forgotten Greenhouse Gas"
https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/la...


Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 History
01:59 Why is N2O so bad?
03:21 Why do N2O levels keep rising?
07:11 Solutions
09:53 What needs to happen on a political level?