Space-based methane maps find largest US signal in Southwest

Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

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.

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