On the shores of the Caspian Sea, less than 30 miles from the place where world leaders, ministers and negotiators are meeting at the COP29 climate summit in Baku this week, a powerful greenhouse gas has been venting into the atmosphere. A sensor installed on the International Space Station detected six separate plumes of methane between April and June. According to the California-based non-profit Carbon Mapper, which analysed the data and shared it with the Financial Times, all were traced to oil and gas sites on the outskirts of Azerbaijan’s capital. Click here to read the full article