By Paul Tullis (Bloomberg) –Biendi Maganga-Moussavou had a problem. As Gabon’s minister of fisheries, agriculture and food security, he helps oversee the African country’s marine protected areas, some of the most extensive.
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Decaying urban gas lines are fueling global warming
Researchers in Europe have devised a way to find methane leaks hidden in crumbling infrastructure as part of a little-known race to slash greenhouse gases
By Paul Tullis / Bloomberg
About two hours into a drive around Utrecht, a city of 358,000 near the center of the Netherlands, the display providing a real-time readout of ambient methane levels begins to freak out.
The Samsung tablet is consistently showing concentrations close to the atmosphere’s background level of about two parts per million (ppm).
Yet suddenly, the chart’s scale expands to follow a sudden spike to 300ppm.