An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf ...

If methane production rises, more of this gas could escape into the atmosphere. Because methane is so effective at trapping ...

The Hunga-Tonga Ha'apai plume, imaged by the Japanese Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8 weather satellite. (Simon Proud/Uni ...

The ice-covered Arctic Ocean is a more important factor concerning the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere than previously assumed. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, ...

Jamie McFarlin, a UW assistant professor of geology and geophysics, is lead author of a research paper that was published in Science Advances. The study shows that sustained climate warming during the ...

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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with more than 20 times greater global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Yet scientists admit that their knowledge about methane’s sources and movements ...