Just inland of Australia's east coast, roughly 200 miles from the Great Barrier Reef, a single coal mine run by Glencore emitted so much super-warming methane in a year that it had the same climate-warming impact as the annual pollution from more than 4 million U.S. cars.
A Dutch group of scientists has used space instrument TROPOMI to calculate methane emissions from six Australian coal mines. Together these account for 7% of .
Australian shares are set to open higher with oil and iron ore as well as US and European equities recovering from their respective initial omicron sell-offs.