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 ...

The amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, helping to turbocharge climate change, a new study finds. Tuesday’s study finds that ...

Humans have been tinkering with greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere for at least 2,000 years and probably longer, according to a surprising new study of methane trapped in Antarctic ice cores ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...

The new dietary guidelines are a boon for industrial beef and dairy, but both generate methane, an especially potent ...

Colorado State University in Fort Collins has received $25 million in grants to further their mission to reduce methane gases leaking from oil and gas machinery in the United States. CSU received $20 ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Microbes living in tree bark consume vast amounts of climate-related and toxic gases, according to new ...

Humans are now the primary driver of methane emissions, with the main sources stemming from agriculture, fossil fuels, landfills and waste. Here young men work on a landfill in the east end of ...