During the COVID-19 pandemic, the atmosphere temporarily lost its ability to break down methane, leading to a huge spike in ...

Direct effects of global warming are worsening, while extreme weather events are not. Both have to be properly weighted to ...

As the world shut down due to COVID, causing less traffic like trains, planes and automobiles, scientists expected the planet to get a break from harmful pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and methane.

In a paradox of air pollution, a decrease in man-made pollutants led to more methane in our atmosphere. And natural wetlands released more of the planet-warming gas at the same time ...

Methane levels in Earth’s atmosphere surged faster than ever in the early 2020s, and scientists say the reason was a surprising mix of chemistry and climate. A temporary slowdown in the atmosphere’s ...

The International Energy Agency’s latest report on methane puts last year’s energy-related emissions around the same level as in 2023. Global releases of methane from the energy sector remain high ...

Methane comes in different isotopic signatures. Methane from fossil fuels like natural gas leaks or coal mines is heavier, ...

Treating methane as an afterthought in air quality policy is no longer a technical oversight but a political choice, with measurable consequences for citizens’ health, farmers’ livelihoods and ...

Researchers have released an initial assessment of the emissions data MethaneSat gathered before it suddenly went dark. The ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Poland has been identified as Europe’s largest “super-emitter” of methane from coal mining operations, ...

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission’s Piscataway Bioenergy Project serves those counties. And the facility in Accokeek turns “poop to power” by converting the methane gas from biosolids — the ...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with strong heat-trapping capabilities. Although there is less methane in the atmosphere ...