Methane is considered a "super pollutant" due to its role in global warming.

It's short-lived but its planet-heating effects are much stronger than CO2. But a new report says action on cutting methane is too slow. Where does it come from, and what can we do to stop it ...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn't ...

This month MethaneSAT, an $88 million, 770-pound surveillance satellite conceived by the Environmental Defense Fund and designed at Harvard to precisely track the human sources of methane being ...

Some oil and gas companies are working to lower climate-warming emissions, even if they aren’t saying much about it.

The way emissions are counted affects how carbon credits are valued, which projects receive support, and how quickly climate ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Producer Aynsley O’Neill with Dr. Stephen Conley, an atmospheric scientist and the founder ...

Methane is a greenhouse gas that pollutes the atmosphere. It has an atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years. This gas has a big impact on heating up the planet. Per unit of mass, methane can warm up ...

In the fight against climate change, the focus is usually on carbon dioxide, or CO 2 — and for good reason. It’s a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for years, trapping in heat for ...

Deep below the surface in coastal sediments, microorganisms use conductive particles as tiny natural "wires" to exchange ...