As the world races to curb climate change, scientists are taking aim at cows, a surprisingly potent source of greenhouse gases. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien traveled from California to Mexico ...

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 ...

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.

They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their appetites be harnessed to slow climate change?

The findings are important because methane is over 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Arctic lakes are already major natural methane sources globally, but the processes ...

Limiting methane emissions is a good thing but agriculture is producing other, more damaging, greenhouse gases ...

In the newest season of Marketplace’s climate solutions podcast, “How We Survive,” host Amy Scott explores foods of the ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania landfill will begin using the methane produced from rotting garbage to make electricity. State environmental regulators said Thursday they have signed off ...