NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detects methane hidden deep inside interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unusual carbon dioxide abundance |

[ad_1] The view coming back from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has a way of turning familiar categories of comet science slightly awkward. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object only briefly passing through the solar system, has been watched before, but this time the reading feels less like a routine update and more like a chemical surprise […]

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Cutting methane emissions: A fast, cheap climate solution?

[ad_1] In the race to curb rising global temperatures and emissions, reducing methane offers the world a “climate emergency break,” said Martina Otto, head of the UN Climate and Clean Air Coalition. Although more short-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, methane is over 80 times more potent at trapping heat over a 20-year time […]

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