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Accounting for methane

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and a strong driver of climate change. Sources of emissions include both human activity, such as natural gas leakage and rearing livestock, and natural environments, such as wetlands. This Collection of articles from Communications Earth & Environment explores the processes that influence methane emissions across a range of settings in the natural environment and how we can improve methane accounting associated with human activities to, ultimately, mitigate anthropogenic emissions.

This is an open Collection and submissions will be considered on a rolling basis.

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Editors

Communications Earth & Environment is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio that publishes high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances that bring new insight to a specialized area in Earth science, planetary science or environmental science. Read more about the journal here.