Global methane emissions are rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn

Global emissions of methane, a powerful planet-warming gas, are "rising rapidly" at the fastest rate in decades, requiring immediate action to avert a dangerous escalation of the climate crisis, a new study has warned.

Methane emissions are responsible for half of the global warming already recorded, have been rising sharply since 2006 and will continue to rise through the rest of the 2020s unless new steps are taken to curb this pollution, a new paper concludes. The author of the research is more than a dozen scientists from around the world and published on Tuesday. (Oliver Milman, more at theguardian.com)