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Methane

A natural gas flare on an oil well pad burns as the sun sets outside Watford City, North Dakota
Energy
EPA’s rollback of methane regulation is bad for the climate — and energy companies
Aerial view fracking pads
Environment
Fracking causes environmental damage and birth defects, new study shows
Andrea Carolina and Desikan Sundararajan with Statoil, along with Dirk Richter, founder of Quanta3 (left to right), install a pilot methane detector at a Statoil well pad at the Eagle Ford Shale natural gas site in Texas.
Environment
Engineers compete to detect methane leaks, a powerful climate pollutant
Methane bubbles under ice
Environment
Melting polar ice poses a serious global risk
An oil well pictured, back lit by a sunset near Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Environment
Appeals court blocks Trump’s attempt to roll back methane rules
Lake Shasta
Science
Reservoirs are sources of drinking water, hydropower and … tons of greenhouse gases
Greentown Labs in Somerville, Mass. has become the nation’s largest clean technology incubator, housing more than 50 small companies.
Technology
Massachusetts pushes to brew up new green businesses to help fight climate change
Mobile methane sensors
Environment
Scientists and industry are both working to find and stop dangerous methane leaks
An oil well in India
Environment
US methane emissions are drastically underestimated, a new study shows
Aliso Canyon
Environment
The massive gas leak in Los Angeles shows no signs of ending
New feed curbs methane emission from gassy cows
Science
Gassy cows: a problem you never knew you had
Toronto Zoo resident Vishnu eats his breakfast. The zoo is hoping what happens next will be a big boost for them.
Technology
Toronto’s Zoo plans to turn its animal waste into electricity
A bank of this lake thawed in the Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, allowing the Okokmilaga River to cut through and drain it to sea.
Environment
Earth’s biggest natural fridge is turning into a greenhouse gas machine
Canada's Highway of Heroes
Global Scan
Canada says goodbye to a hero shot dead on Wednesday
NASA methane hotspot
Environment
Scientists find the largest US methane ‘hotspot’ — from space
Environment
A thawing ocean floor pours methane into the atmosphere — and it’s only getting worse
Environment
Researcher looks to better understand climate risks of leaky natural gas wells
Environment
Environmentalists call for greater attention to methane leaks, to fight climate change
Environment
Warming climate presents grave risk of greenhouse gas release in Arctic
Environment
Rwanda turning to a dangerous lake to secure a more independent energy future
Environment
Burning water, contamination and natural gas “fracking”
Business, Economics and Jobs
Renewable energy from dog poop
Environment
Compostable products create recycling conundrum
Fighting burps helps the environment
Environment
An Arctic Climate Catastrophe?
Methane Hydrates: Fire and Ice
Health & Medicine
Rwanda Lake Poses Gas Danger, Energy Promise
Huge Methane Emissions from Fresh Water
Science Note: Cow Manure and Methane
Flammable Gas In Drinking Water From Hydraulic Fracking
Model Methane Dump
Huge Methane Emissions from Fresh Water
Getting to the Bottom of Methane
Methane in the Gulf
Getting to the Bottom of Methane
Arctic Methane
Lower-Emitting Livestock
Belching Cows
Emerging Science Note/Farting Fish
Natural Gas on the Rise (part 2)
Natural Gas on the Rise
Technology Note
Methane
Listener Letters
Technology Update
Environment
People power
Environment
Manure magic