Natural gas flaring emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. The majority of atmospheric methane comes from human activity, with the agricultural sector and the oil and gas ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a ...

Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane—a highly potent greenhouse gas that is warming planet Earth—come from microbes that live in oxygen-free environments like wetlands, rice ...

Methane is a greenhouse gas that is more than 25 times as potent as CO 2 in warming the Earth. Reducing methane emissions is necessary to reduce the impact of global warming. In urban areas, evidence ...

Enormous amounts of methane are trapped in the ocean floor worldwide. The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) uses an underwater mass spectrometer (UWMS) - ...

Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat. A herd of cows on a farm. An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, ...

Landfills’ work faces, the areas where fresh waste is dumped, are responsible for a huge share of methane emissions in US landfills, yet work face emissions have largely gone uncounted by traditional ...

An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, rose faster than ever in the three years ending in 2022. In a new report from the Global Carbon ...

Key market opportunities include developing methane-reducing technologies in agriculture, energy, and waste management sectors, capitalizing on natural gas leak recapture, and creating voluntary ...

East of Hazar, Turkmenistan, a port city on the Caspian Sea, 12 plumes of methane stream westward. Some of the plumes, detected by NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission, ...