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Agriculture culprit in dramatic methane spike

AGRICULTURE, including flatulent cows and rice paddies, has been blamed for an unexpectedly powerful spike in atmospheric methane over the past decade, which suggests that just as Big Oil producers are working to curtail emissions, Big Agriculture needs to lift its game.

Agriculture culprit in dramatic methane spike

The paper, which was co-authored by CSIRO climate scientists, tracked a surge in atmospheric methane since 2007, with concentrations of methane in the atmosphere over the last two years alone rising by...

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