Wasting an opportunity to create safer alternatives to fossil fuels

Generating methane from organic wastes might be a more rational choice than pinning hopes only on coal

Death trap

Methane emissions from wetlands rose 5-6% since 2000-2006: Study

Methane is responsible for roughly 30 per cent of the rise in temperature since the pre-industrial period

NASA spots 50 methane super-emitters on Earth

Most of these sites have ties with agriculture and fossil fuel industries

UNEP calls Nord Stream methane leak ‘biggest-ever’; plume over Europe fading

Earlier this year, UNEP showed that oil and gas fields worldwide have been causing massive methane leaks, mostly due to faulty equipment  

Sustainable rice production key to food security

Though a staple crop in many countries, rice production is facing the impact of extreme weather events such as droughts and floods

Reservoirs are large contributors of methane to the atmosphere

A new study helps to revisit the understanding that hydroelectric projects are a ‘green’ or carbon neutral source of energy

Methane on the decline

Gas on demand

Depleting gas resources can be overcome by creating natural gas... artificially!

Drilling down the dumps

Household garbage produces large quantities of methane which leaks into the atmosphere and contributes to the greenhouse effect. A Swedish …

Charred to extinction

Methane reserves set the air ablaze and roasted alive several species, including the dinosaurs

Watered down

Regular draining of water from rice fields reduces methane emissions

The Greenwashers: Big Oil’s words and actions on climate emergency do not match, says study

Such companies spend huge sums of money to portray themselves as proactive on climate action; but their measures to reduce climate change are …

In a first, New Zealand proposes to tax farmers for livestock burps

Livestock emissions are a major source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas; New Zealand has more livestock than people

World headed towards 2.4°C warming despite CoP26, according to 4 assessments

We may still be able to limit warming to 2°C, but 1.5°C will require technology to play an outsized role that it currently does not …

Thawing permafrost can pose direct threat to human health: Report

The meltdown can release bacteria, viruses and radioactive material locked away in the frigid layers

Climate Change Commission calls on New Zealand government to take ‘immediate and decisive action’ to cut emissions

New Zealand’s net emissions rose by 57% between 1990 and 2018, placing it among the poorest performers in the OECD

The other side of climate friendly foods

Efforts to change diets and reduce global warming has pitfalls  

Many current climate models could be wrong about global warming: Study

Even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century, rapid polar warming may release additional …

Taking stock of Africa's livestock emissions

A new study on emissions contributed by cattle challenges the IPCC's estimates, triggering a call to incorporate data from local livestock systems

A lot of gas

An Indian scientists has challenged the estimates of methane -- a greenhouse gas -- produced from paddy fields

Great Siberian thaw

Methane, carbon dioxide will be released on a huge scale

Environmentally friendly process to produce hydrogen

After 250 research articles, Jim Dumesic, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, would much rather …

Warming beyond borders: Amazon deforestation heats up Tibet, says new study

There are no borders in the fight against climate change, cooperation is the key, says study published in Nature

Agenda for CoP26: Why the phasing out of coal won’t be decided in a jiffy

Despite the progress, coal still accounts for 34 per cent of the world’s power production in 2020; and that is only going to rise