Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Poison Into Food
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have uncovered how a methane-producing microbe thrives on toxic sulfite without becoming poisoned. Methanogens are tiny…
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Nanowire Made by Bacteria Provides Important Clues to Combating Climate Change
An ultra-stable protein nanowire made by bacteria provides clues to combating climate change. Rapid global warming poses a severe and immediate threat to life on…
Uncovering the Hidden Sources of City Methane Emissions: Researchers Reveal Unrecognized Contributors to Global Warming
Montreal’s municipal greenhouse gas inventory presents an incomplete picture of methane emissions. Cities are responsible for almost 1/5th of the global methane emissions caused by…
Carbon Mapper: NASA Sensors to Help Detect Methane Emitted by Landfills
A nonprofit group, Carbon Mapper, will use data from NASA’s EMIT mission, plus current airborne and future satellite instruments, to survey waste sites for methane…
A Better Way To Search for Extraterrestrial Life
An airborne chemical sends a distinctive biological signal. Broccoli, along with many other plants and microorganisms, release gases to aid in the removal of toxins….
New “Artificial Photosynthesis” System Produces Methane With 10x Efficiency
University of Chicago breakthrough creates methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide, and water. Humans have relied on fossil fuels for concentrated energy for the past…
Scientists Calculate Climatic Impact of Methane Leak From Ruptured Nord Stream Pipelines
Nord Stream 1 and 2, two subsea pipelines for transferring natural gas from Russia to Germany, were both deliberately ruptured on September 26, 2022. Massive…
NASA’s EMIT Mission Detects More Than 50 Methane “Super-Emitters” From Space
EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) was built to help scientists understand how dust affects climate. It can also pinpoint emissions of the potent…
Not Science Fiction: Methane-Eating “Borgs” Have Been Assimilating Earth’s Microbes
A newly discovered type of transferable DNA structure with a sci-fi name appears to play a role in balancing atmospheric methane. In Star Trek, the…
Multiple Satellite Offer Images and Insights Into Nord Stream Pipeline Leak
Following unusual seismic disturbances in the Baltic Sea, several leaks were discovered last week in the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, near…
New Method Converts Greenhouse Gas Into Fuel
The new method converts methane gas into liquid methanol. A team of researchers has successfully converted methane into methanol using light and scattered transition metals…
Scientists Discover “Holy Grail of Catalysis” – Converting Methane Into Methanol Using Light
An international team of researchers has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, commonly called natural gas, into liquid methanol at ambient temperature…
Bacteria Generate Electricity From Methane: Generating Power While Purifying the Environment of Greenhouse Gases
Generating power while purifying the environment of greenhouse gases should be achievable using bacteria. In a new publication, microbiologists from Radboud University have demonstrated that…
Methane Plumes Detected Over Poland’s Coal Mines
Data from the Tropomi instrument onboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite has been used to detect methane plumes over some of Europe’s largest methane-emitting coal mines….
Compelling Sign of Alien Life: Methane Could Be the First Detectable Indication of Life Beyond Earth
A new study assesses the planetary context in which the detection of methane in an exoplanet’s atmosphere could be considered a compelling sign of life….
Tropical Methane Emissions Explain More Than 80% of Recent Changes in Global Atmospheric Methane Growth Rate
An international team of researchers has revealed that tropical terrestrial methane (CH4) emissions explain more than 80% of the observed changes in the global atmospheric…
Reducing Methane Emissions at Landfills – New Technology To Capture More of the Potent Greenhouse Gas
Loci Controls, founded by two MIT alumni, helps landfill operators capture more of the potent greenhouse gas. The second-largest driver of global warming is methane,…
Climate and Health Impacts of Natural Gas Stoves Are Much Greater Than Previously Thought
Study estimates that methane leaking from stoves inside US homes has the same climate impact as about 500,000 gasoline-powered cars and the stoves can expose…
