While there are many different points of view in the climate world, most agree that carbon emissions are a key contributor to climate change. Where the disagreements occur is when the conversation ...

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 ...

A 2021 pledge by more than 100 nations to cut methane emissions from anthropogenic sources 30 percent by 2030 might not slow global warming as much as projected, as new research shows that feedbacks ...

New research has shown that fire-ice - frozen methane which is trapped as a solid under our oceans - is vulnerable to melting due to climate change and could be released into the sea. An international ...

Millions of years ago, four volcanoes rushed into one another and crashed, birthing Ross Island, which sits today at the eastern lip of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Every little grain of ice sitting ...

A past leader of the Sierra Club recently acknowledged he was too late in realizing that curbing methane emissions should have been a priority in combating climate change. In Europe, leaders who once ...

The latest study finds that emissions of the potent greenhouse gas might be higher than previously estimated. Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious ...

More than one-third of the food produced in the U.S. is never eaten. Much of it ends up in landfills, where it generates tons of methane that hastens climate change. That's why more than 50 local ...

A coalition of 50 major oil and gas companies said at COP28 on Saturday that they would work to cut methane emissions by 80 to 90% by the end of the decade, marking a potential breakthrough in the ...

Methane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A dramatic spike in ...

In the fight against climate change, the focus is usually on carbon dioxide, or CO 2 — and for good reason. It’s a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for years, trapping in heat for ...