Oil and gas producers rely on flaring to limit the venting of natural gas from their facilities, but new research led by the University of Michigan shows that in the real world, this practice is far less effective than estimated—releasing five times more methane in the U.S. than previously thought.
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Better Predictions on Rise of Oceans on Warming Earth
When glacial ice sheets melt, something counterintuitive happens to sea levels.
What Goes on in the Brain When It Gets Too Hot?
Which organisms survive and which succumb when the climate changes?
NASA-Built Weather Sensors Capture Vital Data on Hurricane Ian
Two recently launched instruments that were designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to provide forecasters data on weather over the open ocean captured images of Hurricane Ian on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, as the storm approached Cuba on its way north toward the U.S. mainland.
Technology: UNM Researchers Find Bitcoin Mining Is Environmentally Unsustainable
Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more comparable to the impacts of extracting and refining crude oil than mining gold, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports by researchers at The University of New Mexico.
SAGE III Sees Tonga Aerosols, Water Vapor Months After Eruption
In July, purple and pink hues painted the Antarctica and New Zealand skies — likely the result of atmospheric particles called aerosols that belched into the stratosphere in January during the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano.


