Antarctica sits on a hotbed of methane gas. The cracks erupting in its seafloor are causing it to burst out and rise to the ...

A newly discovered molecular phenomenon is responsible for the spectral balls of light seen in swamps and cemeteries ...

The findings are important because methane is over 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Arctic lakes are already major natural methane sources globally, but the processes ...

Even thousands of feet below the water's surface, no arachnophobe is truly safe from spiders. And, thanks to a discovery by a team of scientists, three more species have been added to the list of ...

Heat-trapping methane may be best known for the dangers it poses to humans and Earth’s atmosphere, but in the dark depths of the ocean, the greenhouse gas is a nourishing meal for some of the world’s ...

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Newly published research from PSE Healthy Energy, a US-based nonprofit research organization, highlights the hidden dangers of methane leaks, an often overlooked but serious threat to both the climate ...

An International study has analyzed methane gas fluxes in over a hundred tidal wetlands and marshes in the USA. The analysis has identified key environmental factors affecting methane emissions and ...

The Loan Programs Office is backing a Colorado-based company’s plan to search for methane from oil and gas sites. The Department of Energy gave a major boost Wednesday to a company working to track ...

The world’s emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, are increasing rapidly, and rice farming produces around 12% of these emissions. After identifying the organic compounds rice plants secrete ...

Canadian researchers have identified a new microbe that turns food waste into renewable natural gas, even under high ammonia ...