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Photo A Cow stands in front of the RWE Niederaussem coal-fired power plant while steam rises from cooling towers on February 16, 2016 near Bergheim, Germany – Credit: Volker Hartmann/Getty Images https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p09tx5cl.mp3 The latest UN climate report concludes that while … Continue reading →

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NASA Climate Change– Jul 21, 2020 Complete transcript: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000…​ The visualization presented here shows the complex patterns of methane emissions produced globally between January 2018 and November 2018 from different sources. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps heat … Continue reading →

PBS NewsHour – Jan 24, 2021 Methane emissions caused by human-related activities, especially from livestock, and oil and gas industries, are responsible for 25% of global warming, according to the United Nations. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the growing call by … Continue reading →

Paul Beckwith Published on Jul 27, 2020 Recent papers on the Global Methane Budget are vital reading. Atmospheric methane concentration is rapidly rising from 2 main sources; namely agriculture (mostly livestock) and fossil fuels (mostly fracking). Two basic approaches to … Continue reading →

WGBHForum Dr. Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT shares the result of his project measuring the rates of change in atmospheric concentrations of trace greenhouse gases. After more than 30 years of research, he and his colleagues … Continue reading →

Published on Oct 10, 2019 In our world of satellite data, computer models, and simulations, on-the-ground (on-the-ocean in this case!) field work is invaluable. UK’s Peter Wadham’s is the sea-ice expert and Russia’s Igor Semiletov is the Arctic methane expert, … Continue reading →

Paul BeckwithOct 10, 2019 A group of Russian scientists led by Igor Semiletov, aboard one of the world’s largest research ships, the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh over the Arctic Ocean’s Eastern Siberian Arctic Shelf have directly measured extremely high methane … Continue reading →

The lead researcher said that “this is the most powerful” methane seep he has ever seen. “No one has ever recorded anything similar.” by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Scientists studying the consequences of methane emissions from underwater permafrost in the … Continue reading →