Methane gas is emitted from surface, open cut and underground coal mines through extraction, seam fracturing and debris from the collapse of roofs and walls. It can also be indirectly released ...

Queensland's resources industry – primarily coal mining and coal seam gas extraction – is responsible for a staggering one third of the state's total ...

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but there is far less of it in the atmosphere and it does not stay there as long. Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon ...

The idea seems counterintuitive: after all, methane, the major component of natural gas, has been demonized by environmentalists for being a potent greenhouse gas. But a synthetic version could ...

Methane is a compound close compoundA pure substance made from two or more elements which are chemically bonded in a fixed ratio. containing two elements close elementA pure substance which is ...

Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, and these emissions are expected to increase with global warming and as the human population continues to grow.

A volcano in Ethiopia is spewing unusually large volumes of methane from its crater, according to satellite measurements of the potent greenhouse gas. This comes after hundreds of earthquakes have ...