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Study finds pipeline blasts released record-shattering amount of methane into the Nord Stream

The rupture of Europe’s Nord Stream gas pipelines two years ago resulted in the planet’s largest human-caused release of methane; new study finds.

Dr Queenie Chan explores hidden depths of the Solar System on BBC Two

Dr Queenie Chan, a Planetary Scientist from the Department of Earth Sciences was filmed for an episode of ‘Solar System’ presented by Professor Brian Cox and airing this Autumn on BBC Two.

Royal Holloway academic examines high hopes for natural hydrogen

Professor Dave Waltham discusses the role of hydrogen as an increasingly important component of the energy transition in an article published in New Energy World magazine.

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