Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas that can come from all kinds of places, including industrial facilities, agriculture, the production of oil and gas, and natural sources like wetlands and ...

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon, but we don’t know where a lot of it is coming from. “It’s really difficult for us to understand why there’s been this doubling of methane in the ...

An International Space Station instrument looks for dust and finds a methane vent in the Permian Basin near Carlsbad A news release from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory about its new mineral mapping ...

Internal combustion passenger cars get a bad reputation for a very good reason. Those platinum-packed, performance-choking catalytic converters exist for a purpose, of course. But too often, ICE is ...

NASA has reported that an official U.S. methane estimate is wrong. In a new satellite analysis, an international team of scientists found that methane emissions in the U.S. were higher in 2019 than ...

LAS VEGAS – Methane-emissions data from GHGSat will be shared for scientific research through NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program. Montreal-based GHGSat announced July 31 that the ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 25 (Reuters) - An orbital NASA instrument designed mainly to advance studies of airborne dust and its effects on climate change has proven adept at another key Earth-science function ...

NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie on June 15, 2018, which was the 2082nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. Self-portraits are created using images taken by Curiosity's Mars Hands Lens ...

A team of NASA scientists may have resolved a mystery surrounding disappearing methane on Mars, that was detectable by NASA’s Curiosity rover but absent in readings taken by an orbiting ESA spacecraft ...

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