'Milestone': Global greenhouse gas levels accelerate past key marker

By Peter Hannam
Updated October 25 2016 - 8:13am, first published 7:24am
Indonesian fires, made worse by last year's El Nino, are partly to blame for a jump in global greenhouse gas levels. Photo: Ulet Ifansasti, Getty Images
Indonesian fires, made worse by last year's El Nino, are partly to blame for a jump in global greenhouse gas levels. Photo: Ulet Ifansasti, Getty Images
Cape Grim, the premier site monitoring atmosphere composition in the sourthern hemisphere, will celebrate 40 years of operations next month. Photo: John Woudstra
Cape Grim, the premier site monitoring atmosphere composition in the sourthern hemisphere, will celebrate 40 years of operations next month. Photo: John Woudstra

The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising at the fastest rate on record, new research shows.

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