Scientists solved the mystery of will-o'-the-wisps by discovering that methane bubbles in marshes create lightning sparks ...

Whatever the name, for centuries people have reported seeing these eerie, faint blue flames hovering over marshes, bogs and ...

An International study has analyzed methane gas fluxes in over a hundred tidal wetlands and marshes in the USA. The analysis has identified key environmental factors affecting methane emissions and ...

Shallow coastal waters are hotspots for methane emissions, releasing significant amounts of this potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. This new research ...

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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 ...

The sun's glint reflects off the Pacific Ocean shadowed by a line of cumulonimbus clouds as the International Space Station orbits about 253 miles above the Earth's surface. Credit: NASA Methane only ...

Even thousands of feet below the water's surface, no arachnophobe is truly safe from spiders. And, thanks to a discovery by a team of scientists, three more species have been added to the list of ...

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 ...

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in ...

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 ...

The world’s emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, are increasing rapidly, and rice farming produces around 12% of these emissions. After identifying the organic compounds rice plants secrete ...