It's been known for nearly a century that swarms of single-celled organisms thrive by consuming chemicals from their ...

Archaea are a major branch of life, but we still have a lot to learn about these microbes, which were only discovered in the 1970s. They are now known to play a variety of roles in environmental ...

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: ...

New research has implications for addressing a leading contributor to climate warming, methane. Methane is the second-largest contributor to climate warming after carbon dioxide, and so scientists ...

How’s this for innovative: A Berkeley Lab-led team hopes to engineer a new enzyme that efficiently converts methane to liquid transportation fuel. There's a lot of methane available, and we want to ...

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 ...

Construction of a laboratory that will monitor methane gas extraction and the ecological stability of Lake Kivu is expected to be complete in November this year, officials have said. ALSO READ: REMA ...

According to new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union recently, coal mines release as much as 50% more methane into the atmosphere than estimates had previously ...

Decades of buried trash is releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at higher rates than previously estimated, the researchers said. By Hiroko Tabuchi They’re vast expanses that can be as big as ...