Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.
Scanning electron micrograph of Methanobrevibacter smithii DSM 861 (=PS T), Methanobrevibacter smithii DSM 2375 (=ALI), Methanobrevibacter smithii GRAZ-2 and WWM1085. Credit: International Journal of ...
Gas pipelines can be dangerous to human health even if people don't damage them by digging. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Trump administration is decreasing the attention ...
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A lawsuit has been filed against the Southern California Gas Company. — -- A continuing release of natural gas, which allegedly contains huge amounts of methane, as purportedly seen in a video ...
The new dietary guidelines are a boon for industrial beef and dairy, but both generate methane, an especially potent ...
Two eyes in the sky are now trained on Earth, locating the worst offenders for releasing methane, wherever they may be. Methane is a super-powered greenhouse gas. Pound-for-pound, methane is 80 times ...
An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois (U.S ...