Fracking Footprint Seen From Space

ENN
Oct 10, 2014, 9:38 am21 pts
An unexpectedly high amount of the climate-changing gas methane, the main component of natural gas, is escaping from the Four Corners region in the US Southwest, according to a new study by the University of Michigan and NASA. The researchers mapped satellite data to uncover the nation's largest methane signal…

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