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Space-based methane maps find largest U.S. signal in Southwest
2014-10-11 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An unexpectedly high amount of the climate-changing gas methane, the main component of natural gas, is escaping from the Four Corners region in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new study by the University of Michigan and NASA. The researchers mapped satellite data to uncover the nation's largest methane signal seen from space. They measured levels of the gas emitted from all sources, and found more than half a teragram per year coming from the area where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah...
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