The idea seems counterintuitive: after all, methane, the major component of natural gas, has been demonized by environmentalists for being a potent greenhouse gas. But a synthetic version could ...

Methane is the second most important contributor to climate change. Accounting for roughly 20 percent of human-caused GHG emissions, methane has a global warming potential 80 times more powerful ...

Almost two decades ago, the atmosphere’s levels of methane — a dangerous greenhouse gas that is over 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in the short term — started to climb. And climb.

One of California’s biggest sources of methane pollution — its massive dairy industry — operates almost entirely without regulation. In fact, not only do the state’s largest dairies face no penalties ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. But there are many other sources of methane emissions that have been more difficult to address because they are in settings and at levels ...

GENEVA - Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, locking in future temperature ...

Heading off such tipping points must be a key goal of climate policy. Reducing methane emissions alone can limit .3 degrees Celsius of temperature rise by 2050, three times more by mid-century ...

For all the damage that humanity is causing through our production of greenhouse gases, the numbers involved can seem impossibly slight. Every year, we release about 9.6 billion tonnes of carbon ...

Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.

The Supreme Court recently declined to suspend new environmental rules requiring oil and gas operations to cut their methane emissions, allowing the rules to move forward while challenges play out ...

Republican officials in two dozen states had asked the Supreme Court to halt the methane rule, arguing that the Environmental Protection Agency was acting outside of its authority to approve it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court left in place Friday two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing industry emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury.