Gas leak near Cop

A greenhouse gas responsible for 40% of the world’s warming over the past decade is leaking into the atmosphere from a site near where the Cop26 summit will be held.

Methane from a gas pipeline near to Ibrox football stadium, detected by researchers from Royal Holloway University of London, is leaking at a rate equivalent to 50 tonnes per year – the same as the emissions of 500 cows, the researchers estimated.

Rebecca Fisher, the academic who found the invisible plume using car-mounted measuring instruments, said: “It was strikingly larger than the

other leaks we saw.”