When Covid lockdowns emptied highways and grounded jets, global carbon dioxide emissions briefly dipped and city skies turned an unfamiliar shade of blue. Yet in the same window, methane in the ...

Because methane has around 80 times the warming potential of CO2 over a 20-year period, it has been a major focus for climate ...

The amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, helping to turbocharge climate change, a new study finds. Tuesday’s study finds that ...

How much planet-warming methane is coming from water reservoirs? Environmental groups want California to track emissions.

As the world shuttered in 2020 amid Covid-19 lockdowns, scientists expected to see one silver lining to the pandemic: a decrease in air pollution. With fewer cars on the roads and a drop in industrial ...

What is the single biggest driver of methane emissions today? It’s not what most people think. Discover the surprising sector ...

Urban emissions of methane—a potent greenhouse gas—are rising faster than bottom-up accounting estimates anticipated, ...