GLASGOW, Scotland — The Biden administration on Tuesday announced plans to introduce some of the nation's strongest regulations against methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, part of a broader ...

Gas pipelines can be dangerous to human health even if people don't damage them by digging. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Trump administration is decreasing the attention ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tiny methane-eating microbes could fight climate change and produce fuels, protein, and biodegradable plastics from waste gas.

Waste management is no longer simply a disposal function. By prioritizing methane management through both downstream controls ...

More than a decade ago, the Mesa County Landfill voluntarily began capturing and burning off the methane generated by the organic waste disposed of there. Now, county officials are watching with ...

Global satellite-detected methane emissions from the onshore upstream oil and gas sector increased in late 2024 and early 2025, reversing a steady decline since 2020, with a 40% year-on-year increase ...

Roughly two-thirds of all atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, comes from methanogens. Tracking down which methanogens in which environment produce methane with a specific isotope signature ...

It's been known for nearly a century that swarms of single-celled organisms thrive by consuming chemicals from their environments and expelling methane gas as a byproduct. In 2024, researchers in the ...

Emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane continue to rise, even though methane controls offer “one of the most cost-effective strategies to slow near-term warming,” environmental officials ...