Satellites have also picked up more than 1,000 large methane plumes from oil and gas operations over the past two years, according to a U.N. Environment Programme report published on Friday ...

It started with a purple blob on a computer screen in Paris, France. The splotch, hovering over a patch of desert in eastern Algeria, was the tell-tale sign of a release of methane, a colourless, ...

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 ...

A herd of cows on a farm. 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 ...

Delays and cancelled contracts have meant little progress has been made in repairing the devastating event that rocked South ...

Three industries account for the majority of human-caused methane: agriculture, waste and fossil fuels. Coal mining contributes 12 per cent of emissions in the fossil fuel industry, while the ...

Laboratory simulation of methane gas leakage in Persian Gulf sediments. • Identification of key microbial groups: aerobic methanotrophs and anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea. • Microbial indicators ...

PARIS - The world's major oil and gas companies have mostly vowed to stop leaking the extremely potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, but big loopholes in their pledges risk ...

Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is the second leading driver of climate change after carbon dioxide. Quickly curbing its emissions from the oil and gas sector, agriculture and ...