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New research has found that when a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up over Europe last year, it left a plume of lithium pollution in the upper atmosphere – the first time scientists have directly measured the chemical footprint of re-entering space debris.

A sharp jump in atmospheric methane in the early 2020s happened largely because the air temporarily lost some of its ability to scrub the gas away, while at the same time, tropical wetlands started releasing more of it, a new study has revealed.