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Researchers measure methane exchange on upland trees in Peru. | Photo Credit: Vincent Gauci (CC BY-ND) Tree bark in the world’s forests absorbs the greenhouse gas methane, my colleagues and I have demonstrated for the first time on a global scale – a discovery that could have big implications for tackling climate change. As trees…
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For the last three years, Naveen Chandra has been spending most of his days running simulations at the Research Institute for Global Change in Japan. He is trying to recreate the last 50 years of the earth’s atmosphere on a supercomputer roughly the size of an auditorium. Dr. Chandra has been trying to answer a…
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The Paris-based agency said failing to curb methane leaks from oil and gas projects was a “massive missed opportunity” to prevent losses and reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas. | Photo Credit: AP “Planet-heating methane released by the fossil fuel industry rose to near record highs in 2023 despite technology available to curb this…
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