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Greenhouse gas levels hit new record highs in 2025: UNGreenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to new record highs in 2025, locking in climate impacts that will persist for centurie...
Electricity, cash and crises: what's on the COP31 agenda?The upcoming COP31 conference in Antalya, Turkey, is gearing up to tackle pressing climate change and energy challenges. The negotiations w...
California’s beaches are disappearing — San Clemente could need 300,000 truckloads of sand as El Niño threatens an already eroding coastSan Clemente is experiencing significant coastal erosion that is diminishing beach space and threatening infrastructure. The city estimates...
A future without oxygen: Scientists explain what Earth could look like in a billion years - hostile to complex life long before the Sun dies outEarth's breathable atmosphere is a temporary phenomenon, experts predict. Computer simulations show oxygen loss within one billion years, l...
Global temperature rise set to cross 1.5-degree Celsius threshold: United NationsGlobal temperatures will soon surpass the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold, increasing climate risks. This UN report emphasises immediate green...
In 2000, UC Irvine led a 2-season study of rice paddies, finding crops emit ozone-depleting gases. Years later, the research still shows rice farming contributes 5% of atmospheric methyl iodide globally todayRice paddies are known for methane emissions. But UC Irvine researchers found another atmospheric connection worth watching. Flooded rice f...
Massachusetts’ 2022 drought pushed seawater into a coastal marsh, triggering an 83% crash in methane emissions; the wetland still hadn’t recovered a year laterIn 2022, Massachusetts experienced a significant drought that led to seawater intrusion in a coastal marsh. This unusual phenomenon resulte...
Something is thawing beneath Alaska — and the price tag could be $43 trillionAlaska's tundra holds immense frozen carbon stores which are thawing. This thaw releases greenhouse gases, potentially causing significant ...
A 2022 volcano eruption in Pacific may have vented a new weapon to fight climate changeA 2022 volcanic eruption unexpectedly revealed a powerful methane destruction mechanism in the stratosphere. Researchers observed high form...
Nestle quits global alliance on reducing dairy methane emissionsFood giant Nestle has withdrawn from the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, a global initiative aimed at reducing methane emissions from dairy ...
Powering a greener future: How modern biogas technology cuts emissions and creates valueModern biogas technology significantly reduces methane emissions, offers clean energy, and promotes biofertilizer use. This helps lower rel...
Climate Group urges countries to tax oil , gas imports; rapidly reduce methane emissionsClimate Group has launched Climate Week NYC, urging nations to tax oil and gas imports to fund green initiatives, remove barriers to renewa...
Methane: a powerful gas heating the planetGlobal forum in Geneva shifts focus to methane emissions, a significant contributor to rising greenhouse gases. Efforts to cut methane from...
US lays out plan at COP 28 to slash climate 'super pollutant' from oil and gasThe rules, two years in the making, were announced by U.S. officials at the United Nations COP28 climate change conference in Dubai. The Un...
Experts to draft white paper on methane managementA white paper on capturing methane, particularly coal bed methane, will be submitted to the Indian government based on the results of a day...
US federal agency funds methane capture project IndiaAccording to the press release, the USTDA-funded feasibility study will develop recommendations on extracting, gathering, compressing, and ...
Oil and gas methane emissions could be solved this decade, experts sayCurrently, oil and gas extraction, processing and distribution is responsible for 23% of global methane emissions, according to a 2021 asse...
Satellite spots huge burst of methane from Russian coal mineMontreal-based GHGSat said one of its satellites, known as Hugo,' observed 13 methane plumes at the Raspadskaya mine in Siberia on January ...
Nearly 90 countries join pact to slash planet-warming methane emissionsNearly 90 countries have joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane 30% by 2030 from 2020 lev...
G20 Rome summit aims to set agenda for COP26 climate talksThe developed nations are upping the ante and aim to finalise an ambitious climate action plan at the G20 heads of nations summit in Rome o...