The University of California, Irvine has been granted $1 million to develop a unique laboratory for the research of clean energy obtained from methane hydrates, an as-yet untapped source of methane ...

SAN DIEGO, CA -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have recreated the high-pressure, low-temperature conditions of the seafloor in a tabletop apparatus for ...

A process and related technology that research at the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) helped to develop could enhance the use of natural gas and the world’s vast ...

How’s this for innovative: A Berkeley Lab-led team hopes to engineer a new enzyme that efficiently converts methane to liquid transportation fuel. There's a lot of methane available, and we want to ...

SINGAPORE – Like extracting a biological sample to gauge a person’s health, a researcher from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) sticks a needle into a sealed box with a rice plant inside to draw ...

Microorganisms growing in landfills, on agricultural land and in wetlands are contributing to skyrocketing levels of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to new research. Microbes ...

A study last week suggested that there could be up to 400 billion metric tonnes of methane under the Antarctic ice sheet. The concern this study flagged up was the effect on the climate such a large ...

Scientists have measured big increases in the amount of methane, the powerful global warming gas, entering the atmosphere over the last decade. Cows or wetlands have been fingered as possible sources, ...