Landfills are spewing even more methane into the atmosphere than we thought

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Methane emissions colored blue, yellow, and red float over an aerial map of a landfill in Texas.
A methane plume over a landfill in Texas.

Carbon Mapper

Oil And Gas Companies Are Being Watched By a New Methane-Tracking Satellite

Gizmodo : Environment

Earlier this week, a new satellite launched to track methane as it emanates from oil and gas fields across the world, hoping to expose major producers of the greenhouse pollutant and hold them accountable for their commitment to lower emissions.

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SpaceX launched a satellite that Google will use to map methane leaks for all to see by the end of this year

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MethaneSAT is the first of a new wave of satellites designed to pinpoint sources of methane emissions.

MethaneSAT / Environmental Defense Fund

Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Google's methane map shows oil and gas infrastructure shaded in yellow, red, and blue.
Google expects to make its methane map public later this year.

Google

The mystery of Siberia's strange exploding craters may have finally been solved

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FILE PHOTO: A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia November 9, 2014 REUTERS/Vladimir Pushkarev/Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration
A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia

Reuters

Why Can’t We Just Quit Cows?

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Can hydrogen be green? The debate heats up as the White House pours $7 billion into hydrogen hubs

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Round white storage tanks at China's first first solar-powered green hydrogen pilot project in Xinjiang.
Storage tanks at China's first first solar-powered green hydrogen pilot project in Xinjiang.

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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean — and don't mean — for the search for alien life

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Exoplanet K2-18 b is not a planet astronomers would typically think to search for alien life.

NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI)

If a single farm produced all the food wasted in the US, it would be the size of California and New York combined. We're the culprits.

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A woman serves food at a San Francisco restaurant
Shuggie's, a San Francisco restaurant, uses food that would otherwise go to waste to create meals.

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Your Local Sewage Plant Is Probably Spewing Methane

Gizmodo : Environment

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