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06 Apr 2021
Taken from the April 2021 issue of Physics World.

Cutting methane production from livestock is considered vital to climate change mitigation, with lots of research focusing on how animals breed and are fed. But physicists are playing their part too by developing ways to measure the emissions from cattle, using techniques such as spectroscopic analysis and aerial sampling, as Michael Allen discovers

A few years ago, atmospheric physicist Grant Allen and his colleagues were using drones to measure m

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