When Covid lockdowns emptied highways and grounded jets, global carbon dioxide emissions briefly dipped and city skies turned an unfamiliar shade of blue. Yet in the same window, methane in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the world shuttered in 2020 amid Covid-19 lockdowns, scientists expected to see one silver lining to the pandemic: a decrease in air pollution. With fewer cars on the roads and a drop in industrial ...

Methane is a greenhouse gas that pollutes the atmosphere. It has an atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years. This gas has a big impact on heating up the planet. Per unit of mass, methane can warm up ...

An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, rose faster than ever in the three years ending in 2022. In a new report from the Global Carbon ...

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 ...

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 ...