Methane emissions from Canada's non-producing oil and gas wells appear to be seven times higher than government estimates, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill University. The ...

A top city Environmental Protection engineer killed in a weekend sewage-boat explosion may have accidentally blown himself up by welding near methane, sources told The Post on Monday.

Emissions and atmospheric concentrations of methane continue to increase, making it the second most important human-influenced greenhouse gas in terms of climate forcing after carbon dioxide. In ...

Warming temperatures can ramp up the activity of methane-producing bacteria in wetland soils, adding to methane emissions.

A large explosion at a methane drilling rig left two workers injured. CCTV footage shows the moment of the explosion in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, on March 29. The massive blast and thick, black ...

Methane leaks from sites like rice paddies, landfills, dairy farms and coal mines could be plugged with the help of gas-guzzling bacteria, helping to curb near-term global warming. Later this year ...

Justice & Health For the First Time, Alabama Says Methane ‘Likely’ Caused Fatal Home Explosion Above Coal Mine State officials have ordered tighter monitoring of methane gas above coal mines ...

PGW to offer free methane detectors to all customers as part of ‘landmark’ settlement The “landmark” settlement with PUC stems from a 2019 home explosion in South Philadelphia that killed two people ...

PGW is promising to provide free methane detectors and alarms to its customers as part of a revised settlement over a deadly house explosion in South Philadelphia in 2019.

A fee created to push oil and gas companies to plug methane leaks could be axed by the incoming Trump administration, hampering efforts to curb the potent greenhouse gas ...

Climate change is also increasing methane releases. Removing atmospheric methane is a tempting prospect as a climate change-curbing strategy.

Title image: The Pantanal, located in South America, is the world's largest tropical wetland. Tropical wetlands are responsible for about a fifth of the world's methane emissions. (Credit: ...