A newly discovered source of methane emissions is adding to growing concerns about climate change, as scientists reveal that melting glaciers are leaking large amounts of this potent greenhouse gas.

Microbes Were Once Responsible for the Biggest Mass Extinction Ever Experienced by Earth, Claim Researchers For most people, microbes are associated with diseases, but a team of researchers says these ...

A volcano in Ethiopia is spewing unusually large volumes of methane from its crater, according to satellite measurements of the potent greenhouse gas. This comes after hundreds of earthquakes have ...

Methane bubbles from their muddy depths in a ... Black shales, the compressed mud of ancient seas, were known as petroleum source rocks. But over geologic time much of the oil and gas had migrated ...

A South Carolina ghost story could have a very earthly explanation.

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we don't know it? This is what a recent study published in The ...

Gases released from magma (molten rock) inside Earth escape through cracks in the surface and collect in the early atmosphere. The likely presence of methane and ammonia among the gases makes for ...

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but there is far less of it in the atmosphere and it does not stay there as long. Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon ...

According to the report, China buys our LNG at rock-bottom prices and then resells ... It is mostly from leaked, vented and flared methane gas, the primary component of natural gas and a climate ...

The idea seems counterintuitive: after all, methane, the major component of natural gas, has been demonized by environmentalists for being a potent greenhouse gas. But a synthetic version could ...