Methane is a highly potent heat-trapping gas, and cutting methane pollution can slow warming more quickly than many other climate strategies. Fossil fuel leaks are also largely avoidable.

As regulators investigate and lawmakers lament the Feb. 3 train derailment at the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that released carloads of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere, state officials have expressed ...

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas, causing much more warming than carbon dioxide on a unit-for-unit basis—and a new, uniquely long-term study of emissions at a New Jersey landfill ...

Microorganisms growing in landfills, on agricultural land and in wetlands are contributing to skyrocketing levels of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to new research. Microbes ...

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. Enabled by recent developments in enzymatic oxidation of methane and synthetic biology, this perspective presents the opportunity to develop ...

The world is moving in a perilous direction when it comes to planet-warming methane emissions, which are soaring to record highs driven largely by human activity, new research warns. In April of this ...

‘Decadal doubling of Siberian methane emissions due to warming-induced fires and methanogenesis‘ by Sihong Zhu et al. was published in Science at 19:00 UK time on Thursday 6 August 2026.

Fracking—the use of hydraulic pressure to crack layers of shale that hold oil and natural gas—is controversial. That’s one thing we know about a debate that mainly focuses on what we don’t know. The ...

US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt — JOSEPH EID US climate envoy John Kerry urged Pacific island states on Thursday to join ...

This collection of real-world examples demonstrates how flaring and methane emissions have been successfully reduced from oil and gas operations across the developing world. These cases serve as ...

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: ...