Thawing permafrost has released so much methane into Esieh Lake near Fairbanks, Alaska that the air above it is flammable. Credit: Katey Walter Anthony/ University of Alaska Fairbanks ‘My heart ...

The Supreme Court recently declined to suspend new environmental rules requiring oil and gas operations to cut their methane emissions, allowing the rules to move forward while challenges play out ...

Almost two decades ago, the atmosphere’s levels of methane — a dangerous greenhouse gas that is over 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in the short term — started to climb. And climb.

Because of its extremely cold temperature, the liquids on Titan are made of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, and the surface is made of solid water ice. The research team, led by research ...

For the last two years, Canada has shown up at the annual United Nations climate conference, with a very good story to tell about its progress on tackling the harmful methane emissions that come ...

On Thursday, November 7, the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) ...

Sitting in his cramped office in Paris, Manfredi Caltagirone admits that one of the world’s highest-profile efforts to cut methane emissions so far isn’t stopping the gas from escaping and ...

Methane is the second most important contributor to climate change. Accounting for roughly 20 percent of human-caused GHG emissions, methane has a global warming potential 80 times more powerful ...

Minister Schulz will travel to the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...

Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (44 ...