Methane emissions rose faster in past 5 years than any other period on record Tropics identified as main source of methane surge, driven by wetlands Methane cuts beyond 30% pledge may be needed to ...

Therefore a methane burst capable of triggering the PETM is needed to cause warming over a period of well over a century. During this initial period immediately after the trigger, the atmospheric ...

That's the puzzle scientists have been wrestling with since 2014, when the first 100-foot-wide crater burst through soil that ...

The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate rules, aimed at cracking down on leaks of methane — a potent planet-warming gas ...

A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...

Washington — Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden ...

The Biden administration is imposing a fee on large energy companies that spew excess methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Republicans may be able to repeal it. By Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer Oil ...

President Biden's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a new rule Tuesday, taxing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. The new tax was born out of Biden's sweeping climate ...

The Supreme Court recently declined to suspend new environmental rules requiring oil and gas operations to cut their methane emissions, allowing the rules to move forward while challenges play out ...