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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting out a bunch of methane. Here's why that's weird

The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different it is from ...

Warming boosts natural methane emissions as microbes fail to keep pace

A new study led by Professor Mark Trimmer of Queen Mary University of London, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, ...

Scientists turn carbon dioxide into renewable methane using microbes

As wind turbines spin and solar panels soak up sunlight, one major problem continues to shadow the clean energy transition: ...

Easily overlooked small wetlands are a big source of global methane

Waterlogged land areas such as marshes, bogs and fens are the world's largest natural source of methane. Even the smallest of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Tonga’s Enormous Volcanic Eruption Cleaned Up Part of Its Own Methane Emissions in 2022, Hinting at a Way to Fight Climate Change

Researchers analyzed satellite imagery of the volcanic plume and found evidence that the potent greenhouse gas had broken ...

Methane rocket fuel is easier to handle and convenient but, as Blue Origin saw, it can be very explosive

Going straight up is hard. It takes a lot of energy. For those of us who enjoy hiking, cycling or running, hills are the bane ...

DigMethpy: An AI-driven platform for accelerating methane pyrolysis catalyst discovery

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-powered platform that could significantly speed up the discovery of ...
Science News

Who’s leading the herd on methane management?

Enteric methane — the polite term for burps from cows and other cud chewing animals — is a primary contributor to global ...

3I/ATLAS is releasing methane, scientists discover — Harvard scientist thinks it’s further evidence of aliens

3I/ATLAS may be departing our solar system, but it’s still very much on Avi Loeb’s mind. In a recent blog post, the Harvard ...

Powerful Tonga volcano eruption may hold clues to destroying methane, study finds

The discovery emerged from satellite observations of the eruption plume. Scientists detected an unusually large cloud of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Detects Methane On Interstellar Comet For First Time, Reveals Unusual Chemistry

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has collected its first mid-infrared chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object during ...

JWST finds methane in the atmosphere of a rare temperate Saturn-sized planet

TOI-199 b, a rare temperate giant planet, sits between scorching hot Jupiters and frozen gas giants, and JWST has found methane in its atmosphere. That first close look begins to fill a major gap in ...