Last year, we told you about how researchers were trying to figure out why the Four Corners area was such a hotspot for methane.
Well, now they’ve got some answers. They determined there are more than 250 sources of methane, but that a small number of them are responsible for about half of the emissions.
Christian Frankenberg is a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and has been working on this.
