Watch the world go up in fracking flares

Grist
By Sara BernardSep 3, 2014, 4:01 pm48 pts
Prepare to be terrified: Natural gas drilling is so widespread now you can see it from space. SkyTruth has a pretty haunting visualization tool made out of NOAA satellite imagery that shows nightly gas flares sparkling across the globe. In the U.S., it’s possible that over 40 percent of those flares…

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