State officials have ordered tighter monitoring of methane gas above coal mines in the state after a slap on the wrist from ...

Some 18,000 cows were killed in a blast at a Texas dairy farm earlier this week, possibly by ignited methane gas, according to local authorities. The explosion, at South Fork Dairy near the town ...

A methane explosion rocked a parking lot in Zizhong County, Neijiang, Sichuan, after a young boy threw a lit firecracker into a sewer, causing the blast. The explosion, triggered by biogas buildup ...

ALMATY, March 5 (Xinhua) -- A government investigation has confirmed that a methane buildup caused the deadly collapse at a mine in central Kazakhstan that killed seven miners last month ...

Miner Fabio Cáceres García died Tuesday as a result of “an explosion of methane and coal dust” in El Zulia in eastern Colombia, while 14 other workers remained trapped, it was reported.