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A Complicated Future for a Methane-Cleansing Molecule

13+ hour, 24+ min ago  (652+ words) News from the Columbia Climate School Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn't linger in the atmosphere for long thanks to molecules called hydroxyl radicals, which…...