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A vicious cycle: How methane emissions from warming wetlands could exacerbate climate change

Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even…

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Hotter temps trigger wetlands to emit more methane as microbes struggle to keep up

Rising temperatures could tip the scale in an underground battle that has raged for millennia. In the soils of Earth's…

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Politics

House votes to overturn rule implementing methane fee

The House on Wednesday voted to overturn a Biden-era rule implementing a program that charges oil and gas companies for…

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Science

Clean air policies having unintended impact driving up wetland methane emissions by up to 34 million tons

Reducing sulphur in the air may inadvertently increase natural emissions of methane from wetlands such as peatlands and swamps, a…

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Science

Coastal waters: An underestimated source of methane

Shallow coastal waters are hotspots for methane emissions, releasing significant amounts of this potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and…

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Science

Technology for oxidizing atmospheric methane won’t help the climate

As the atmosphere continues to fill with greenhouse gases from human activities, many proposals have surfaced to “geoengineer” climate-saving solutions,…

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