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Hidden Menace: Massive Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change
Friday August 5, 2022. 11:25 PM , from Slashdot
![]() But Mako's outsized emissions aren't illegal, or even regulated. And it was only one of 533 methane 'super emitters' detected during a 2021 aerial survey of the Permian conducted by Carbon Mapper, a partnership of university researchers and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The group documented massive amounts of methane venting into the atmosphere from oil and gas operations across the Permian, a 250-mile-wide bone-dry expanse along the Texas-New Mexico border that a billion years ago was the bottom of a shallow sea. Hundreds of those sites were seen spewing the gas over and over again. Ongoing leaks, gushers, going unfixed. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/08/05/1748218/hidden-menace-massive-methane-leaks-speed-up-cli...
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