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A U.S. dairy farm. Global methane emissions have increased rapidly over the past five years.

Atmospheric methane removal: A promising but challenging climate solution

Sean Mowbray 6 Nov 2024

An ‘aquatic moonshot’ in Vietnam aims to fight livestock methane with seaweed

Michael Tatarski 11 Oct 2023
Gas-fueled power plant in Riau, Indonesia. Image courtesy of PLN.

Indonesia aims to use gas in foreign-funded energy transition; critics cry foul

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Mar 2023
Image courtesy of Rixster II

Potty-trained cows? Teaching cattle where to urinate could help reduce greenhouse gases

Emily Moskal 30 Nov 2021

Hope old and new: COP26 focused on two largely unsung climate solutions

Justin Catanoso 18 Nov 2021

COP26: As carbon emissions rise unabated, scientists eye a methane removal fix

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2021

Plastics set to overtake coal plants on U.S. carbon emissions, new study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Oct 2021

Seafloor microbes hoover up methane, keeping global warming in check

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jul 2021
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

We have turned the Amazon into a net greenhouse gas emitter: Study

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2021

Siberian heat drives Arctic ice extent to record low for early July

Gloria Dickie 10 Jul 2020

Arctic permafrost moving toward crisis, abrupt thaw a growing risk: Studies

Gloria Dickie 18 Mar 2020

Soggier forest soils thwart the uptake of climate-warming methane

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2018

Mangroves and their deforestation may emit more methane than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jul 2018

Proposed Colombia dam threatens to wipe out endangered plants, disrupt river

Taran Volckhausen 26 Jul 2017

Methane mystery: fossil fuels spewing less methane, but gas continues to accumulate

Jacqueline Hernandez 15 May 2017
Fires in Far North Queensland, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rekindling Australia’s Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)

Catherine Monagle 8 Apr 2016

California declares state of emergency after methane gas leak forces thousands from their homes

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2016

Scientists say frozen methane deposits off the coast of the US Pacific Northwest might be melting

Mike Gaworecki 16 Oct 2015

Video: global carbon dispersal looks like an impressionistic painting in motion

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2015

Global warming emissions from meat consumption rising rapidly

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2014

Lab-grown meat: a taste of the future?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jun 2014

Climate change’s ominous secret

Larry Kraft 21 May 2014

Palm oil’s climate impact worse than thought due to methane emissions

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2014

Fracking: the good, the bad and the ugly

Owen Reynolds 18 Nov 2013

CO2 concentrations hit new high last year

Jeremy Hance 6 Nov 2013

France upholds nationwide ban on fracking

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2013

Arctic melt to cost trillions

John Vidal 30 Jul 2013

Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2013

Rise in 1.5 degrees Celsius likely to spark massive greenhouse gas release from permafrost

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2013

Hotter and hotter: concentrations of greenhouse gases hit another new record

Jeremy Hance 20 Nov 2012

Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2012

U.S. eyes massive frozen methane deposits as future energy source

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2012

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