A series of underwater explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 caused the largest known methane leak on record from a single incident, according to new research published on Wednesday.

The explosions that hit the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022 released around 465,000 tons of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere, new studies have revealed. The three studies published the journals Nature and Nature Communications said that this was largest known single man-made event in which methane escaped into

Methane from the destroyed Nord Stream pipelines spread over a large part of the southern Baltic Sea and remained for several months. This is according to a study by researchers from the University of Gothenburg and the Voice of the Ocean research foundation.

Up to 485,000 tonnes of the greenhouse gas seeped from the Nord Stream pipeline network following a series of explosions in 2022.

The mysterious Nord Stream pipeline explosions sent methane levels in the Baltic Sea rocketing to 1,000 times higher than normal, a new study has revealed, as fears grow over underwater sabotage linked to Russia.

A major leak of a greenhouse gas from the Nord Stream pipeline was far more significant than first realised, according to new research involving scientists from the University of Leeds.