Ocean sediments are a massive storehouse for the potent greenhouse gas methane. Trapped in ocean sediments near continents lie ancient reservoirs of methane called methane hydrates. These ice-like ...
An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf became rapidly destabilized by meltwater, releasing large stores of methane ...
The world has long lacked the data it needs to reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But that is changing.
Somewhere in the Permian Basin right now, a valve is leaking methane into the open air. Under rules that governed the oil and ...