Yale Environment School: Aquatic Ecosystems Source of Half of Global Methane Emissions
April 07, 2021
April 07, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 7 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news:
Atmospheric methane has tripled since pre-industrial times. It traps heat far more effectively than carbon dioxide and accounts for 25% of atmospheric warming to date.
And much of that methane is coming from aquatic ecosystems, with human activities contributing to the emissions levels, a new paper published in Nature Geoscience has found.
The global contributi . . .
Atmospheric methane has tripled since pre-industrial times. It traps heat far more effectively than carbon dioxide and accounts for 25% of atmospheric warming to date.
And much of that methane is coming from aquatic ecosystems, with human activities contributing to the emissions levels, a new paper published in Nature Geoscience has found.
The global contributi . . .