Next to CO2, methane is the greenhouse gas that contributes most to the man-made greenhouse effect. Of the methane sources caused by human activity, rice fields and cattle are among the most important ...

University of Minnesota researchers are looking for ways to reduce the production of the greenhouse gas methane created when cows digest their food.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide in its capacity to trap heat in Earth's atmosphere for a long time. The gas can originate from lakes and swamps, natural-gas pipelines ...

Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane—a highly potent greenhouse gas that is warming planet Earth—come from microbes that live in oxygen-free environments like wetlands, rice ...

The Environmental Protection Agency just awarded Ohio University nearly $200,000 to go toward a project aimed at reducing methane emissions. The project would target food and brewery sectors near the ...

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From Day 1, the Biden Administration has made the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions a priority, tasking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with finding new ways to promote a greener energy ...

The EPA announced new rules today that would slash methane leaks from the oil and gas sector, a significant source of carbon emissions that represents 30 percent of methane pollution in the US. Nearly ...

Research also has significant implications for search for extraterrestrial life. Although our original headline suggested a choice between geology or life on Mars, researchers have since proposed ...

BAKERSFIELD — As dawn breaks over 40,000 cows housed in a miles-long cluster of dairy farms near Bakersfield, rivers of their manure rush toward football-field-sized lagoons that are a hotbed of ...

An electron microscope image of single-celled methanogens, members of the archaea branch of the tree of life. They are ubiquitous in oxygen-free environments, turning simple foods into methane, a ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it will be granting Ohio University $195,736 to help expand the use of anaerobic digestion. The funds will specifically go to the ...