Debunked: Cows contribute significantly towards climate change, despite claims in viral video
A VIDEO FEATURING a farmer explaining how greenhouse gases emitted by cattle work falsely concludes that methane released…
Scientists quantify crabs’ impact on coastal methane cycling
Looking at a crab, it’s easy to underestimate the animal’s environmental influence. But the burrowing crustaceans are…
JWST finds salt clouds in the atmosphere of a strange Pink Planet
GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling…
Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Using the spectral data from the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have…
Webb Detects Methane in Atmosphere of Exo-Saturn TOI-199b
Using spectral data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers analyzed the…
Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release methane ‘fire ice’
Melting glaciers, like the one in Ilulissat Icefjord, could release vast stores of methane Gerald Wetzel, Karlsruhe Institute…
A New Way to Fight Climate Change Emerges From Erupting Volcano
When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apa submarine volcano erupted in 2022, it spewed roughly 2.9 billion tons of ash…
Scientists Discover Hidden Methane Source Beneath Every Major City
Methane is one of the most powerful drivers of global warming, yet scientists may have overlooked a major…
Chemistry in Pictures: Glowing gassy gut microbes
Although they may look like fancy tulips, the high-resolution 3D fluorescence images above actually show two different…
Environmental groups urge California to track methane from reservoirs
Methane, the second-biggest contributor to climate change, is spewing into the atmosphere from the oil and gas industry,…
Guest post: How changes to coal mining have affected China’s methane emissions
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is responsible for about 30% of the global temperature increase observed since the…
Webb Detects Unexpected Richness of Hydrocarbons in Obscured Core of Nearby Ultra-Luminous Galaxy
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered an unprecedented richness of small gas-phase hydrocarbons —…