NASA scientists at the US space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California are claiming that cracks in frozen parts of the Arctic Ocean’s surface could be leading to increased emissions of ...

An electron microscope image of single-celled methanogens, members of the archaea branch of the tree of life. They are ubiquitous in oxygen-free environments, turning simple foods into methane, a ...

Ep 345 - Is all Methane Created Equal? Guest: Robert Howarth, PhD The debate over agricultural methane is raging, cow burps and cow manure are in the eye of the storm. Dr Robert Howarth of Cornell ...

Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane—a highly potent greenhouse gas that is warming planet Earth—come from microbes that live in oxygen-free environments like wetlands, rice ...