Methane is the second-most important greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. But what do those human-caused emissions look like across the U.S.? This NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio video shows them in the year 2012, consistent with those reported by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ⬇️ Learn more: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/316/methane-emissions-in-the-united-states/ | NASA Climate Change

Solving a mystery of greenhouse gas… A recent NASA-led study has solved a puzzle regarding the rise of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas with a new calculation of emissions from global fires. Learn about atmospheric methane at #NTRS: https://go.usa.gov/xnyUv Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and colleagues focused on the global fires to make their calculations due to the changing nature of the fires. They had quite a detective job involving satellite observations, measu