{"id":891153,"date":"2026-02-09T04:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/why-methane-surged-in-the-atmosphere-during-the-early-2020s-science\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:13:24","slug":"why-methane-surged-in-the-atmosphere-during-the-early-2020s-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/why-methane-surged-in-the-atmosphere-during-the-early-2020s-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s | Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The atmospheric methane (CH4) growth rate surged after 2019, peaking at 16.2 parts per billion per year (ppb year\u22121) in 2020 before declining to 8.6 ppb year\u22121 in 2023. Using multiple atmospheric inversions constrained by observation- and model-based &#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adx8262\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Christeen Mayoral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The atmospheric methane (CH4) growth rate surged after 2019, peaking at 16.2 parts per billion per year (ppb year\u22121) in 2020 before declining to 8.6 ppb year\u22121 in 2023. Using multiple atmospheric inversions constrained by observation- and model-based &#8230;Read MoreChristeen Mayoral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23269,536,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-methane","category-science-nature","category-surged"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}