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MIT: Complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule
March 24, 2026
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 24 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news:

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A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule

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Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn't linger in the atmosphere for long thanks to molecules called hydroxyl radicals, which are known as the "atmosphere's detergent" for th . . .

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