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Nature 442, 730-731 (17 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442730a; Published online 16 August 2006

Special report The methane mystery

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The claim that living plants emit the greenhouse gas methane has shaken up atmospheric scientists. Quirin Schiermeier talks to the experts trying to make sense of the measurements.

It took 18 years, but Paul Crutzen and Eugenio Sanhueza finally found a use for their data. In 1988, the two atmospheric chemists had discovered large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane building up at night over Venezuela.

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