Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monday, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Environmental Defense Fund's MethaneSAT satellite. The satellite will track ...

GHGSat unveiled Pulse, a free map showing average weekly methane concentrations around the world at a resolution of approximately two kilometers per pixel. Credit: GHGSat SAN FRANCISCO – GHGSat ...

On a breezy late summer day in the small Colorado town of Fort Lupton, a massive plume of methane escaped from a hydrocarbon storage tank about 200 feet from an RV park. The leak, the second over four ...

In the quest to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, detecting methane leaks – a potent contributor to global warming – has become increasingly vital. Researchers are harnessing ...

While carbon dioxide gets the lion's share of attention when it comes to global warming, there are other factors at play. Methane is responsible for about 30 percent of the rise in global temperatures ...

Methane leaks from oil, gas, coal and waste sites are no longer hidden in obscure spreadsheets or behind remote fences. A fast-growing fleet of public and private satellites is now mapping those ...

A list of the top 10 global regions where natural or anthropogenic sources emit methane on a continuous, "persistent" basis was recently published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The study ...

Google, a technology leader, has joined forces with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to address one of the most pressing climate challenges: the reduction of methane emissions. Methane, a potent ...

Waterlogged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world's largest natural source of methane. Even the smallest of wetlands emit this powerful greenhouse gas. In a study from The University ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different it is from comets from our solar system.