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Methane hunters: what explains the surge in the potent greenhouse gas?
甲烷獵手:如何解釋這種強效溫室氣體的激增?

Levels of the gas are growing at a record rate and natural sources like wetlands are the cause, but scientists don’t know how to curb it
大氣中甲烷的含量正在以創紀錄的速度成長,但科學家們不知道如何來遏制。

Every year, 6,000 flasks arrive at a laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Inside each is a sample of air, taken from one of a chain of 50 monitoring stations that spans the globe. Together, these samples could help answer one of the most important questions facing the planet: why is there so much methane in the atmosphere?

每年,6000個燒瓶被送到科羅拉多州博爾德的一個實驗室。每個容器裏都有一個空氣樣本,取自遍佈全球的50個監測站中的一個。這些樣本可以幫助回答地球面臨的一個最重要的問題:爲什麼大氣中有這麼多甲烷?

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