A new analysis of satellite data finds that the record surge in atmospheric methane emissions from 2020 to 2022 was driven by increased inundation and water storage in wetlands, combined with a ...

But methane emissions remain stubbornly high. MARS can help transform these pledges into progress, says Coutto. It’s the only ...

Far more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world than governments realized, recent airborne and satellite surveys show. That ...

A list of the top 10 global regions where natural or anthropogenic sources emit methane on a continuous, "persistent" basis was recently published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

There’s about to be a new methane eye in the sky. SpaceX is scheduled to launch on Friday the Tanager-1 satellite. The nonprofit Carbon Mapper is behind the satellite and will make the data ...

In August, a methane-sensing satellite was launched, ... It's a troubling finding: over the first 20 years after it's released, methane warms the atmosphere 90 times faster than CO2.

New satellite is designed to track methane emitted from the oil and gas industry A team of scientists and ... It will detect one of the gases in the atmosphere that's playing a big role ...

Scientists are now racing to explain what's causing methane — CO2's potent sidekick — to build up in the atmosphere at an ... a $90 million satellite built to hunt global methane emissions ...

A new satellite designed to track global methane pollution is set to launch from California on Monday, taking the next step toward a goal of increasing accountability for some of the world’s ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Riley Duren, a research scientist at the University of Arizona and former NASA ...

The data used in this map of the global atmospheric methane average in 2021 was retrieved from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, using the WFMD retrieval algorithm developed at the University ...