Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but there is far less of it in the atmosphere and it does not stay there as long. Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon ...

At least 13 miners have been killed and 10 more injured in a methane explosion at a Czech coal mine, officials say. Most of the victims were Polish miners provided by an agency, the state-run OKD ...

Iran - At least 51 people have been killed and 20 others injured following a gas explosion in a coal mine in South Khorasan ...

Some 18,000 cows were killed in a blast at a Texas dairy farm earlier this week, possibly by ignited methane gas, according to local authorities. The explosion, at South Fork Dairy near the town ...