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 ...

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 ...

Global methane emissions are soaring to record highs driven largely by human activity - and it’s putting climate goals at risk. The Global Methane Budget 2024, published in the journal Earth System ...

By Elizabeth Devitt They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare ...

This year’s United Nations’ annual climate summit, dubbed COP28, is making a lot of headlines — not something I would have found myself writing a few years ago. The headlines emerging from COP28 have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Scanning electron micrograph of Methanobrevibacter smithii DSM 861 (=PS T), Methanobrevibacter smithii DSM 2375 (=ALI), Methanobrevibacter smithii GRAZ-2 and WWM1085. Credit: International Journal of ...

'Knock out Methane', a provocative and tongue-in-cheek animated video produced for GCHA by Wit and Wisdom, explores how methane's role in the biggest threat to public health—climate change—can be ...

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 ...