{"title":"Satellite analysis of methane emissions connects war and urban sustainability","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00312-z","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The effects of warfare on urban sustainability tend to escape traditional measurements and inventories, but now a satellite-constellation-based approach exposes how warfare is unleashing plumes of methane across battlefronts in Ukraine. Emission patterns flip: cities surge from levels that are a fraction of rural emissions to levels that are many times higher.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 9","pages":"781-782"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Cities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00312-z","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The effects of warfare on urban sustainability tend to escape traditional measurements and inventories, but now a satellite-constellation-based approach exposes how warfare is unleashing plumes of methane across battlefronts in Ukraine. Emission patterns flip: cities surge from levels that are a fraction of rural emissions to levels that are many times higher.