Between 8% and 12% of methane emissions in the oil and gas industry come from ‘super emitters’, plumes of methane that can be released at rates exceeding 100 kilograms an hour, similar to the ...

Huge plumes of the warming gas methane have been mapped globally for the first time from oil and gas fields using satellites. Plugging these leaks would be an important step in buying extra time ...

a powerful greenhouse gas has been venting into the atmosphere. A sensor installed on the International Space Station detected six separate plumes of methane between April and June. According to ...

Over the past year, the programme issued 1225 alerts to governments and companies when it identified plumes of methane from oil and gas infrastructure large enough to be detected from space.

Reducing emissions of methane gas is vital for tackling climate change ... resolution instrument in orbit currently, able to detect plumes of CH4 down to about 25m across. In the example above ...

Greenhouse gas methane is behind a third of planetary heating and is relatively easy to slash. The tools to cut methane exist ...

Governments and oil and gas companies…must stop paying lip ... Many who were notified of the large methane plumes detected by satellites within their borders had signed up to a global pledge ...

Caltagirone heads the International Methane ... gas. His team at the United Nations includes researchers who scour satellite data to identify and sound the alarm on methane plumes in an effort ...