Atmospheric methane on Mars changes with the seasons — and we don’t really know why
We don't want to say there's life on Mars... but there could be life on Mars.
Tag: methane
Thousands of methane-filled bubbles are waiting to explode in Siberia
Some of the craters are 50 meters deep.
The lid stays shut on methane emissions despite Pruitt’s wishes, Columbia Court of Appeals judges rule
A major blow for the Trump administration.
Cassini finds canyons flooded with liquid hydrocarbons on Titan
NASA's ever-resourceful Cassini probe found steep-sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan.
New NASA image shows first cloud on Pluto
Pluto really is crazy!
Underwater ‘lost city’ turns out to be a geological formation
It's way older than divers thought.
Researchers find hundreds of methane leaks at well pads in nation-wide thermal imaging study
The Environmental Defense Fund’s Oil and Gas program has released a new nation-wide report of the most common sites of ...
This GMO rice tackles global warming by emitting 100 times less methane
Following a three-year-long trial in the rice of fields of China, scientists report a new genetically modified strain that promises ...
Lakes on Titan might have formed like sinkholes on Earth
Researchers from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have been trying to figure ...
Massive Methane Hotspot Over the US Might Signal Bigger Problems to Come
A "massive methane hotspot" sounds pretty bad... and bad it is - much worse than previously thought. In 2014, NASA ...
NASA finds methane on Mars, indicates life may have existed
After an exhaustive analysis conducted over a year and a half, NASA's Curiosity Rover has finally confirmed the existence of ...
NASA Rover Finds Evidence of Organic Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover has discovered a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical which may indicate that there actually was ...
Abandoned wells can be ‘super-emitters’ of greenhouse gas
Princeton University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown and potentially substantial source of methane emissions: abandoned oil and gas wells. ...
Scientists have finally climbed to the bottom of one of Siberia’s mysterious holes
Scientists have finally climbed to the bottom of one of Siberia’s mysterious holes, and they have come up with some ...
NASA confirms there’s a huge cloud of methane over southwest US
A cloud of methane gas about the size of Delaware was detected over the Four Corners area of the American southwest ...
US drinking water contaminated with gas because of faulty wells, but not fracking
Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images Stanford researchers traced back methane leaks from contaminated drinking water in ...
‘Widespread methane leakage’ from ocean floor off US coast
A sonar image of a new methane plume discovered off the US east coast. A worrying report states that over 500 ...
Mysterious Siberian craters attributed to methane. Permafrost methane release might have begun
The "mysterious" craters in Siberia have actually been caused by methane seeping from the melting permafrost. No rockets, no meteorites, ...
Turning methane leaks from fracking into gasoline; an interesting option, but not enviro friendly
Hydraulic fracking has grown to unimaginable hights in the past few years, growing by some 20% a year, and reaching ...
