A decade-long surge of the potent greenhouse gas methane threatens to make the fight against global warming even harder, top researchers warned on December 12, 2016. A likely culprit, the study concluded, is livestock production and agriculture (especially rice paddies), which together account for nearly two-thirds of manmade methane emissions. Sebastien Bozon / AFP
A decade-long surge of the potent greenhouse gas methane threatens to make the fight against global warming even harder, top researchers warned on December 12, 2016. A likely culprit, the study concluShow more
Surging methane emissions imperil climate goals
After rising slowly from 2000 to 2006, the concentration of methane in the air climbed 10 times more quickly the following decade, according to new study.