A decade-long surge of the potent greenhouse gas methane threatens to make the fight against global warming even harder, top researchers warned. “Additional attention is urgently needed to quantify and reduce methane emissions,” they wrote today in the Environmental Research Letters journal, summarising the findings of a consortium of 81 scientists.

After rising slowly from 2000 to 2006, the concentration of methane in the air climbed 10 times more quickly the following decade, according to that study, which was published in the peer-reviewed Earth System Science Data.........Read more

Source: The Financial Express