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SpaceX rocket launches pioneering methane-tracking satellite to orbit
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SpaceX rocket launches pioneering methane-tracking satellite to orbit

A new satellite that will track climate-heating methane emissions from oil and gas companies around the world launched this week from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base.  The washing-machine-sized satellite, named MethaneSAT, lifted off Monday (March 4) atop a Falcon 9 rocket, one of 53 payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 rideshare mission. MethaneSAT is designed to ultimately help policymakers...

NASA’s new ‘Greenhouse Gas Center’ tracks humanity’s contribution to climate change
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NASA’s new ‘Greenhouse Gas Center’ tracks humanity’s contribution to climate change

The center will track greenhouse gas emissions and help the public be more attuned to the impacts of climate change. At the end of November, The White House shared how the Biden-Harris Administration aims to combat climate change by increasing the monitoring and measurement of our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. But this is not a...

What we get wrong when we talk about global warming
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What we get wrong when we talk about global warming

Three and a half years ago I had a New Year’s Eve that I will never forget. Not because of a spectacular house party or dazzling fireworks display, but because I got stranded in a tiny Australian beach town when the only road out became cut off by a rapidly approaching bushfire. Lunch was coated...