Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2022)

Methane emissions from agricultural ponds are underestimated in national greenhouse gas inventories

  • Martino E. Malerba,
  • Tertius de Kluyver,
  • Nicholas Wright,
  • Lukas Schuster,
  • Peter I. Macreadie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00638-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Agricultural ponds in the USA and Australia emit nearly double the amount of methane reported in their national greenhouse gas inventories, according to estimates derived from a combination of flux measurements from the literature and observations.