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.
Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.
A new battle between Colorado air regulators and environmentalists is brewing along the Front Range over how effective pollution-control devices at oil and gas drilling sites are at eliminating ...
Heading off such tipping points must be a key goal of climate policy. Reducing methane emissions alone can limit .3 degrees Celsius of temperature rise by 2050, three times more by mid-century ...
These anaerobic conditions are found below the water table, where methane is produced from soil organic matter by methanogens that exclusively belong to the archaea domain (Ferry, 1999). Methane ...