methane

Alaska is a climate victim and a perpetrator. The next four years will only make matters worse
“I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council Member Mark Springer. Until recently he and his wife would pick...
Americans will throw out 316 million pounds of food on Thanksgiving. Here’s how it fuels climate change
Mexico City —  Each day, an army of trucks delivers tens of thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables to Mexico City’s Central de Abasto, one of the world’s...
The U.S. Has a Methane Problem. A.I. Is Making It Worse.
The Biden-Harris administration, that is, has mostly stuck to the long-standing Democratic Party line: that there’s no contradiction between reducing emissions to meet climate targets and boosting domestic fossil...
Human activity now fuels two-thirds of global methane emissions, report finds
The world is moving in a perilous direction when it comes to planet-warming methane emissions, which are soaring to record highs driven largely by human activity, new research warns....
NASA JPL team hopes to give greenhouse gas-monitoring satellite ‘unprecedented’ vision
It was almost 10 years ago when Andrew Thorpe received a text from the crew flying overhead in a small aircraft: They had spotted a new methane hot spot....