Deep below the surface in coastal sediments, microorganisms use conductive particles as tiny natural "wires" to exchange ...

Climate change is occurring all around us, and research known as attribution science has linked an increasing number of extreme weather events with excessive levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and ...

Natural gas accounts for over 28 percent of US energy consumption. Its main component, methane, is a widely-used fossil fuel but also a major contributor to rising CO 2 levels, and thus climate change ...

The methane that escapes during oil drilling is of no interest to oil companies; the economics of channeling it into natural gas infrastructure don't work out, it's dangerous and inconvenient to store ...

As the saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right. But can two rights cancel out a wrong? It can when the right things are hydrogen and carbon--two resources packed with energy--and the wrong thing is ...

Since the first undersea methane seep was discovered 30 years ago, scientists have meticulously analyzed and measured how microbes in the seafloor sediments consume the greenhouse gas methane. They ...

Off Barbados, researchers from Bremen have investigated how bacteria inadvertently release methane in order to obtain phosphorus—with significant effects on atmospheric greenhouse gases. The potent ...

The direct oxidation of methane -- found in natural gas -- into methanol at low temperatures has long been a holy grail. Now, researchers have found a breakthrough way to accomplish the feat using a ...

Methane is a naturally occurring organic compound, but human activity has increased the amount of this potent greenhouse gas that goes into the atmosphere. Most of the methane that humans emit comes ...