A South China Sea drilling incident caused a significant methane leak in 2018. Ocean scientists observed an ecosystem rapidly ...

A natural cold methane seep. (Schmidt Ocean Institute/ROV SuBastian) In 2018, Chinese geologists created a methane leak in ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and atmospheric levels have been steadily increasing. There are germs that consume methane, called methanotrophic bacteria, and they have the potential to be used ...

Methane in Arctic glacier rivers on Svalbard came from ancient shale, not microbes, and the yearly total is tiny next to what ...

Vincent Gauci has spent more than a decade measuring methane emissions from wetlands. During that time, a growing body of research has emerged detailing how trees in these ecosystems emit methane from ...

There's no sign that methane emissions are declining globally. With scientists warning of dangerous feedback loops, where global warming triggers large stores of methane to be released from underneath ...

There are countless ways we’re advised to live more sustainably – drive an electric car, fly less often, don’t eat meat, shop local. And yet, there’s another environmental action that’s relatively ...

Methane recently reached 1,900 parts per billion (ppb) of Earth’s atmosphere according to measurements taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US. This compares with ...