{"id":31286,"date":"2021-04-23T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/burps-in-space-new-satellite-to-track-global-methane-emissions-cow-new-zealand-methane-satellite"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:00:41","slug":"burps-in-space-new-satellite-to-track-global-methane-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31286","title":{"rendered":"Burps in space: new satellite to track global methane emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand to be mission control for \u2018MethaneSAT\u2019 which will collect data on emissions from bovine flatulence and leaking oil and gas pipelines<\/p>\n<p>In space, no-one can hear you belch \u2013 at least, not for the time being. New Zealand has announced mission control for a new satellite that will orbit the earth observing methane produced by burps or other flatulence from cows.<\/p>\n<p>The digestive processes of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stats.govt.nz\/indicators\/new-zealands-greenhouse-gas-emissions\">6.3 million-strong<\/a> cow population are among New Zealand\u2019s most critical environmental problems. Agriculture is one of the country\u2019s biggest producers of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global heating and climate breakdown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/burps-in-space-new-satellite-to-track-global-methane-emissions-cow-new-zealand-methane-satellite\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand to be mission control for \u2018MethaneSAT\u2019 which will collect data on emissions from bovine flatulence and leaking oil and gas pipelinesIn space, no-one can hear you belch \u2013 at least, not for the time being. New Zealand has announced mission co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31287,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31286\/revisions\/31287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}