Methane is a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. Much of it comes from production and transport of fossil fuels, so you might think methane levels would have tumbled during the global COVID lockdowns of 2020. But in fact, they spiked worryingly upwards. So what's going on?

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