Inside every cow’s stomach lives a teeming world of single-celled organisms, and one of them has been hiding a secret. A ...
Cattle are responsible for a staggering share of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, with enteric fermentation alone ...
Roughly two-thirds of all atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, comes from methanogens. Tracking down which methanogens in which environment produce methane with a specific isotope signature ...
Molecular “fingerprints” reveals that fossil fuel emissions in Asia may play a larger role in rising atmospheric methane than ...
An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf ...
The world’s emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, are increasing rapidly, and rice farming produces around 12% of these emissions. After identifying the organic compounds rice plants secrete ...
The world has long lacked the data it needs to reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But that is changing.
Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks for medicines and other high-demand products. By designing a clever ...