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Works of art - works of muck

by Irene Marzolff, Dep. of Physical Geography, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Dung cakes made from buffalo manure are artfully piled up in a village in Madhya Pradesh. Used as fuel for cooking fires, they are a sustainable energy source in rural areas of India, but add to air pollution by biomass burning.