WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...

Ships traveling through shallow waters trigger methane emissions from seafloor sediments, increasing greenhouse gas releases.

A large increase in atmospheric methane between 2020 and 2022 raised concerns that tropical wetland emissions had surged in ...

A plan to scale up ground-breaking technology producing renewable methane gas from rocks and water in Swindon has been ...

Melting glaciers in Greenland are unleashing hidden methane and shifting soils from carbon sinks to warming sources.

In an area long plagued by air pollution, permitting irregularities have opponents of what’s predicted to be the world’s ...

New research reveals ship-induced methane releases may be significantly underreported in global emissions estimates ...

The Environmental Defense Fund estimates there are somewhere between 300,000 and 700,000 undocumented, abandoned oil and gas ...

I attended an open-house meeting about carbon capture and sequestration. This process would capture carbon dioxide emissions from various industries and power plants and transport it through pipelines ...

A proposal to convert the city’s potent landfill gases into renewable energy, and potentially raise millions of dollars of new revenue, should be released within the next few months. City officials ...

What is fracking? Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique to extract fossil fuels—primarily methane, the principal component of natural gas—from underground rock layers.

As ice sheets retreat, glacial environments initially absorb greenhouse gases but soil development over long times creates a ...