A global methane monitoring system has so far alerted governments and companies to over 1,200 major plumes of the potent greenhouse gas. But it has only received responses detailing the cause of the ...
a powerful greenhouse gas has been venting into the atmosphere. A sensor installed on the International Space Station detected six separate plumes of methane between April and June. According to ...
Between 8% and 12% of methane emissions in the oil and gas industry come from ‘super emitters’, plumes of methane that can be released at rates exceeding 100 kilograms an hour, similar to the ...
These emissions, many of which are anthropogenic in origin—caused by people—manifest themselves as methane plumes, i.e. plumes or clouds of gas that are released and rise from the earth's ...
Over the past year, the programme issued 1225 alerts to governments and companies when it identified plumes of methane from oil and gas infrastructure large enough to be detected from space.