For years, countries have told the United Nations how much methane they emit using a kind of bottom-up bookkeeping: Count the ...

Several situations, including when takeaway capacity is limited at remote oil-well sites, result in methane flaring. To avoid ...

By Elizabeth Devitt They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare ...

Washington — Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos that detected oil and gas industry emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane has been lost in space, the group ...

Countries and corporations like pledging to reduce methane—in part because reducing methane emissions seems like low-hanging fruit: You can cut a lot just by reducing leaks and excess flaring from ...

Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even more, according to a new study published May 7 in Nature.

Emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane remain "far too high" according to a report released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA), even though technology exists to control many ...

Methane is awful for the environment: it's the second most abundant greenhouse gas in the air after carbon dioxide, and is about 28 times as powerful as CO2 in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere ...