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Scientists are worried about methane bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. The thawing of the Arctic as temperatures rise is releasing methane in the seabed. Scientists say high levels of the gas in the atmosphere could speed up climate change.
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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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On April 5, 2010 at 3 p.m. an explosion ripped through the Upper Big Branch Mine in what one Massey Coal Mine Worker on his way into the mine described as a powerful "whooshing" sound as rock, debris, coal dust and smoke came rolling out of the mine.
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A sad day indeed in WV, as the missing miners bodies have been recovered following five days of praying and waiting for the deadly methane gas levels to drop so rescuers could safely enter the mine and search for these missing men.
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As long as we have coal mines in the state of West Virginia we will always have children without fathers, mothers without sons, sisters without brothers and the empty arms of the coal miners' waiting widow.
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Authorities say that deadly methane gas that was coming out of a dairy farm's manure pit has killed five people in Virginia. The dead include four members of a local Mennonite family and a farmhand.
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Beneath the blue-green waters of Lake Kivu is a disaster waiting to happen. Or perhaps a miracle ready to come alive.
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Study suggests dinosaurs produced huge amounts of greenhouse gas methane.
 Cracks in Arctic sea ice are leaking alarming levels of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide, according to NASA scientists.
 The U.S. Energy Department is excited about what it calls unprecedented tests on Alaska's North Slope that produced a steady flow of gas from methane hydrates.
A rock fall that released methane gas may have triggered the deadly Pike River mine blast in New Zealand, experts report.
Scientists identify thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane stored for millennia is bubbling out, potentially accelerating global warming.
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The Park Spark Project
9/1/10 - Hurray! The Park Spark project is officially open! It has been running for about a week now, collecting dog waste from the park, and capturing the methane from it to burn at night.
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