Methane News
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The Canadian oil and gas industry and federal government may be underestimating Alberta's emissions of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases.
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Shell Canada announced on Wednesday the company is launching a methane detector pilot at one of its shale gas sites near Rocky Mountain House in Alberta, Canada. The technology will allow for constant monitoring of methane levels.
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Methane is the primary component of natural gas and is considered a by-product of oil drilling. Methane is also a greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century.
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Huge craters on the floor of the Arctic Ocean are the remains of collapsed methane domes that exploded at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago as the glaciers retreated. But even now, methane gas is still seeping out of the seafloor.
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As many as 7,000 massive underground methane bubbles, formed by thawing permafrost are set to explode in Siberia. Such explosions, while releasing greenhouse gases, can create massive craters and poses a major safety risk to the local people.
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NASA wants to improve on our scientists understanding of the sources of two very powerful greenhouse gases and how they interact in the atmosphere.
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A new study has demonstrated the effect that the growing beaver population, in certain regions, is having on both habitat and methane gas emissions.
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In a protest against coal seam gas leaking into South West Queensland's Condamine River, NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham headed to the river and hopped on a boat.
Then he sparked a lighter a few inches above the water and the river burst into flames.
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Did you know that those scary-looking jack-o-lanterns on people's front stoops are dangerous? The Energy Department says those carved pumpkins will come back to haunt us as they lay rotting on some landfill after they are thrown out after the holiday.
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All parents love their children. And every grandparent falls in love with their grandkids. Which generation are you willing to kill?
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Scientists are worried that as the Arctic warms through global warming, then the considerable quantity of carbon locked away in Arctic tundra will be transformed into greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and methane).
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In one of the most awe-inspiring and audacious plans ever conceived by NASA, the space agency has unveiled a project to send a submarine to Saturn's moon, Titan, to explore its mysterious seas.
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Major conservation efforts have helped save beavers from extinction. Interestingly, this action has had consequences: an increase in the generation of methane gas.
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A cloud of methane gas about the size of Delaware was detected over the Four Corners area of the American southwest years ago. The readings were so unusually high that NASA scientists dismissed them. A new study confirms the methane hotspot is real.
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Researcher Fabio B. Noronha claims that he and his team with the National Institute of Technology may have found a way to convert methane into hydrogen energy.
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Microbial activities in the Gulf of Mexico suggests that gas-rich deepwater plumes following the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout overwhelmed methane-oxidizing bacterial species, leading to high concentrations of methane lasting for a very long time.
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The furor over fracking took a further twist this week as levels of the greenhouse gas methane were found above drilling wells, in some cases, 1,000 times greater than previous Environmental Protection Agency estimates.
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Kangaroos and cows share a similar diet – mostly grasses and other vegetation. Yet, kangaroos give off a relatively low-methane gas whereas cows and other livestock are a major source of the greenhouse gas.
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A new study is examining the possibilities of adapting cattle husbandry and the selection processes for cow breeding, to lower the greenhouse gas emissions produced when cows beak wind.
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Scientists have looked at how bacteria work together to anaerobically digest biomass to produce methane gas, which is important in bioenergy and could be linked to the new generation of biofuels.
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Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, started a petition against fracking in New York. They were then invited to visit communities in Pennsylvania to see the actual impacts and effects of fracking, up close and personal.
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Thawing of permafrost is expected to cause significant additional global warming, not yet accounted for in climate predictions, warn scientists attached to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in a report released this week..
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NASA’s Curiosity rover sampled the air on Mars this week. At a teleconference on November 2, NASA announced Curiosity had not found any evidence of methane, which is often a sign of life, in the Martian atmosphere.
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New research suggests that large volumes of greenhouse gases, like methane, are locked beneath the ice-covered regions of the Antarctic.
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Dangerous levels of methane have appeared in water supplies in Leroy Township, Pennsylvania. The appearance of the gas appears to be the result of fracking activities, leading to a fine being levelled on the well operator Chesapeake Energy.
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A study conducted by the journal Current Biology suggests that dinosaur flatulence may have been a source of global warming.
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A study conducted by the journal Current Biology suggests that dinosaur flatulence may have been a source of global warming.
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A new scientific study has, for the first time, found a pattern linking hydraulic fracturing and natural gas drilling with methane contamination of drinking water, with some contamination levels so high that faucet taps can be set on fire.
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Last year's Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster, claiming the lives of 29 workers, also put at risk federal rescue teams who began their search for potential survivors hours after the blast without backup rescue teams in place, pressured by Massey Energy.
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A new study released this week reveals that shale gas, the product of a highly controversial extraction method called hydraulic fracturing, brings with it a greater greenhouse gas impact than conventional oil, gas, and coal over a 20-year period.
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Methane Image
Monthly methane concentrations (small circles) since 1983, with the running average as a solid line. NOAA
Canada's first set of regulations to lower air pollution from the oil and gas industry have been delivered for the public's perusal. Environment Canada
Satellite imagery shows electric lights and methane flaring in North Dakota's Bakken Formation. NASA Earth Observatory
Measurement regions of interest near the cities of Lloydminster and Red Deer in Alberta. Environmental Science & Technology
Jean-Sabin McEwen and Su Ha Washington State University
Methane can also be trapped in other forms, as with the bubbles here. U.S. Geological Survey
Warming permafrost softens coastlines, making it more vulnerable to wave action and promoting erosion along
the Arctic coast of Alaska. A large block of ice-rich permafrost has detached from the mainland and will quickly disintegrate
(photo: Christopher Arp). United Nations Environment Programme
Relative importance of sources contributing to the bottom up methane inventory for the measurement regions near (a) Lloydminster and (b) Red Deer. Environmental Science & Technology
The Portland sewage treatment plant covers 100 acres and employs 150 people. Portland, Oregon
The engine-generators (shown) supply about 40 percent of the plant's electrical needs. Portland, Oregon
Loss of the polar ice, the Earth's shield in protecting the planet from excessive warming is happening now. TheSyndicateInfo
Porter Ranch residents don't want to hear that it's going to take several more months to fix a methane leak that has already raged on for seven weeks. CBS Los Angeles
Smithfield processing plant in Smithfield, Virginia Nyttend
The Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant
produces 600 million cubic feet of biogas every year. Biogas is a wastewater
treatment by-product. Portland, Oregon
The ExoMars Orbiter will be inserted into an elliptical orbit around Mars and then sweep through the atmosphere to finally settle into a circular, approximately 400-km altitude orbit ready to conduct its scientific mission. ESA/ATG medialab
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