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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting out a bunch of methane. Here's why that's weird

The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different it is from ...

Warming boosts natural methane emissions as microbes fail to keep pace

A new study led by Professor Mark Trimmer of Queen Mary University of London, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, ...

Easily overlooked small wetlands are a big source of global methane

Waterlogged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world's largest natural source of methane. Even the smallest of ...

Scientists turn carbon dioxide into renewable methane using microbes

As wind turbines spin and solar panels soak up sunlight, one major problem continues to shadow the clean energy transition: ...
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NASA’s Webb made the first direct detection of methane streaming off interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, chemistry unlike anything formed inside our solar system

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first mid-infrared chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object, ...

Methane rocket fuel is easier to handle and convenient but, as Blue Origin saw, it can be very explosive

Going straight up is hard. It takes a lot of energy. For those of us who enjoy hiking, cycling or running, hills are the bane ...

NASA detects methane on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, offering clues about distant star systems

The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, highlight that methane likely escaped from beneath the comet's ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Tonga’s Enormous Volcanic Eruption Cleaned Up Part of Its Own Methane Emissions in 2022, Hinting at a Way to Fight Climate Change

Researchers analyzed satellite imagery of the volcanic plume and found evidence that the potent greenhouse gas had broken ...
Science News

Who’s leading the herd on methane management?

Enteric methane — the polite term for burps from cows and other cud chewing animals — is a primary contributor to global ...

‘Wake-up call’: methane emissions from Australian coalmines more than double official estimates, report finds

International Energy Agency findings show government must commit to rapid cuts in emissions of greenhouse gas, climate experts say ...

3I/ATLAS is releasing methane, scientists discover — Harvard scientist thinks it’s further evidence of aliens

3I/ATLAS may be departing our solar system, but it’s still very much on Avi Loeb’s mind. In a recent blog post, the Harvard ...
MIT Technology Review

Pulling methane out of the atmosphere could slow global warming—if we can figure out how to do it

Methane removal technology is unproven and would need to scale up quickly to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Pulling methane out of the atmosphere has the potential to help slow global ...