The amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, helping to turbocharge climate change, a new study finds. Tuesday’s study finds that ...

Methane is a greenhouse gas that pollutes the atmosphere. It has an atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years. This gas has a big impact on heating up the planet. Per unit of mass, methane can warm up ...

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

Forest soils have an important role in protecting our climate: They remove large quantities of methane—a powerful greenhouse ...

The world is moving in a perilous direction when it comes to planet-warming methane emissions, which are soaring to record highs driven largely by human activity, new research warns. In April of this ...

Gas pipelines can be dangerous to human health even if people don't damage them by digging. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Trump administration is decreasing the attention ...

UN reports 12% of methane alerts answered by companies and governments Methane emissions have increased despite global pledge to cut by 30% this decade Observatory to track super emitters in coal, ...

Ditches and canals are the underdog of the freshwater world. These human-made waterways are often forgotten, devalued, and ...

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - San Antonio unveiled a deal on Tuesday that will make it the first U.S. city to harvest methane gas from human waste on a commercial scale and turn it into clean-burning fuel.

The collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991 had social, political and economic effects worldwide. Among them was a suspected role in slowing human-generated methane emissions. Methane had been ...

The technical name for these organisms is methanotrophs and they are actually quite common in nature. They can only get the energy they need to survive and grow from methane or methanol – they can’t ...