Chemistry
Lunar Power Over Methane Emissions
Solid methane hydrates in the Arctic Ocean are slowly leaking methane into the atmosphere, and a team of scientists has…
Tag: methane
Climate Change
A Seasonal “Freeze” on Arctic Methane Release
According to new research from the Arctic University of Norway, current greenhouse gas budgets overestimate the amount of methane released…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Ecology Genetics genomics Microbiology
Think global, act local: how lake microbes respond to their environments
How do microbes in lake sediments respond to small and large scale influences, and what does it have to do…
Biogeochemistry Microbiology
Methane on the dinner menu
Bacteria in coastal waters can eat methane, a greenhouse gas - but just how much and how fast can they…
Climate Change
More than cow burps: the many sources of methane
Methane is an important, and often forgotten, greenhouse gas. It comes from a variety of sources including wetlands, rice paddies,…
technology
Double, double methane and trouble: Quantifying natural and man-made methane seeps
Researchers from Texas A&M and Woods Hole tested out a new, 3D camera system designed to look at deep sea…
Chemistry Geology
A Song of Ice, Fire, and Climate: Could Warming Seas Release Methane from Beneath the Seafloor?
In 2008, scientists were troubled to find methane bubbling up from marine sediments off the coast of a string of…
