New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- We can all intuitively tell that war is terrible for the environment. We are also correct when we link greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution to bombings, missile attacks, and fires from various sources. Two studies should be considered together in order to truly understand how wars harm us all. A study by Feng, Z. et al., released in the prestigious Nature journal a few days ago, looks at the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The authors found that "urban methane emissions, initially just 21% of rural levels, rapidly rise to match rural levels after very few attacks and escalate to ~146%-588% of rural levels under extensive and intensive warfare, revealing urban systems' greater vulnerability to warfare disruption". In ...