Methane comes in different isotopic signatures. Methane from fossil fuels like natural gas leaks or coal mines is heavier, ...

The biggest source of methane, a heat-trapping gas that contributes to our warming planet, is, by and large, agriculture, which produces 3.55 billion tons of methane per year, according to Our World ...

Methane is one of the most powerful greenhouse gases, warming the planet far faster than carbon dioxide over the short term. Yet much of the world’s methane escapes into the air from landfills, farms, ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

The fossil fuel industry has received plenty of flak over the past decade for its conspicuous role in climate change. The usual script goes something like this: Fossil fuels - which currently supply ...

Rewetting wetlands can help lock carbon in the ground, but fully flooding them may backfire by boosting methane emissions.

Eurasia, led by Russia and Turkmenistan, is a significant contributor to global methane emissions, with Turkmenistan's emissions often detectable by satellite. The Global Methane Tracker 2025 reveals ...

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Almost a tenth of the methane produced from oil and gas operations in a Utah site escapes into the atmosphere, according to a federally backed study published Monday. An analysis of the report from ...

Through a combination of high-pressure experiments and optical spectroscopy, physicists have revealed new insights into the ...

(AP) - Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy.