Methane emissions are at new highs. It could put us on a dangerous climate path
But humans have supercharged methane emissions. We tracked changes in all major sources and sinks of this potent greenhouse ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Is methane a greenhouse gas?
This means that if humans stopped adding any methane to the atmosphere tomorrow, within several decades all trace of the extra methane and its climate influence would be gone, whereas the same is not ...
Scientists may have figured out why a potent greenhouse gas is rising. The answer is scary.
Almost two decades ago, the atmosphere’s levels of methane — a dangerous greenhouse gas that is over 80 times ... of those ...
Nature5 年
Methane Hydrates and Contemporary Climate Change
Geology 23, 527-530 (1995). Dickens, G. R., Down the rabbit hole: Toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other ...
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U.K. firm cracks the code to convert harmful methane emissions into useful hydrogen and ...
Methane is a menace. Climate scientists say the invisible gas warms the Earth's atmosphere 84 times faster than carbon dioxide. It's released into the atmosphere by organic material, such as food ...
Center for Biological Diversity1 年
California Bill Would Clamp Down on Dangerous Idle Oil, Gas Wells
By one estimate, about two-thirds of unplugged oil and gas wells in California are leaking methane — a climate super-pollutant over 80 times more climate-heating than carbon dioxide over the short ...