India’s cow crisis: A rebuttal to Sunita Narain

Down To Earth's Editor wrote how it is brutal to kill India’s ancient Uber economy: PETA India director offers a counter-point

The climate rollback that irks even oil heavyweights

Trump administration’s methane rollback has enraged environmentalists while oil majors aren’t happy either

Methane emissions from fossil fuels much higher than current estimates

Methane emissions from fossil fuel and natural geological seepage are 60 to 110 per cent greater than current estimates, says a study published …

Can converting methane into CO2 lead to clean air?

In 2018, methane reached atmospheric concentrations two and a half times greater than pre-industrial levels

Methane's metal link

Fresh evidence suggests that the presence of certain metals is essential for the natural production of methane

Levels of methane emission in India remained stable between 2010 and 2015: study

However, the study also revealed surge in methane emissions in June-September and February–March

Methane halt

Methane mystery: fossil fuels spewing less methane, but gas continues to accumulate

New research finds that methane estimates from the 1980s and 90s underestimated emissions. But measuring methane is getting better

Gassed into surrender

Excise duty imposed on methane produced by effluent treatment plants has been withdrawn

Beware the technology bait

A methane market?

Methane emitters to convert greenhouse gas into energy

A comprehensive GHG inventory for India is within reach

It will not necessarily require new resources, but better co-ordination and commitment of existing resources

Heating pools

Icy fuel

Absorbing methane

Good riddance to bad rubbish

The nastiest greenhouse gas in the world meets its match

Methane, inorganically

No fart tax

Parched ricefields emit less methane

It's hard to picture paddy fields without water puddles. But by draining flooded rice fields for two days before the flowering stage, methane …

Antarctic ice reveals that fossil fuel extraction leaks more methane than thought

Analysis of 12,000-year-old Antarctic ice reveals that methane leaks from fossil fuel extraction play a larger role than previously thought

Pollution, not rice accumulated methane

Cooking disaster, for free

West Delhi hutment residents use methane emanating from an abandoned garbage dump for fuel

Electrifying vapours

Right stop

Atmospheric levels of methane have stabilised

Making agriculture sustainable is good and not for climate alone

The co-benefits are clear, despite uncertainty on the sector’s emissions