Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have demonstrated ...

Oil Drilling Site, Saline Township, Michigan. Noyice the methane flare. Source – Dwight Burdette. CC SA 3.0. Microbiologists have proposed a novel means to generate power and clean-up an environmental ...

Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane—a highly potent greenhouse gas that is warming planet Earth—come from microbes that live in oxygen-free environments like wetlands, rice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An internal view of the reactor system that efficiently converts carbon dioxide and renewable electricity into methane. (CREDIT: ...

There’s no sign that methane emissions are declining globally. With scientists warning of dangerous feedback loops, where global warming triggers large stores of methane to be released from underneath ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An international team, led by Penn State’s Institute of Energy and the Environment Director Bruce Logan, has developed a new reactor design that efficiently converts carbon ...

The methane gas generated by garbage decaying deep beneath the surface at Gill"s landfill in Jackson, Neb., will be captured and pushed by a giant compressor more than a mile down the road to the ...

That methane can later be stored or transported using existing natural gas pipelines and infrastructure. “The big picture is that we can use low-cost renewable electricity to make methane that can go ...

An electron microscope image of single-celled methanogens, members of the archaea branch of the tree of life. They are ubiquitous in oxygen-free environments, turning simple foods into methane, a ...