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Methane bubbles rising from reservoirs add climate risk

On any warm afternoon at a tropical reservoir, you can sometimes see it with the naked eye: clusters of bubbles breaking the ...
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Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth’s seafloor

Bubbles flowing from a methane seep at El Quisco, off the coast of Chile. Researchers found the seeps using sonar-based bubble mapping, bathymetric mapping, tracking in situ methane concentration ...
The New York Times

Methane Hunters Track Swamp Gas That Is Driving Climate Warming

Methane emissions from wetlands are rising faster than those from industrial sources, prompting concerns about a climate feedback loop. Methane emissions from wetlands are rising faster than those ...
ZME Science

Researchers Use “Bottled Lightning” to Turn Methane Into Liquid Fuel

Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, ...
Hydrocarbon Processing

Bottled lightning makes a cleaner fuel: Research shows how bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures

Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...
Mongabay

Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth’s seafloor

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can pack more than 25 times the global warming punch of carbon dioxide, and atmospheric methane emissions have been growing significantly since 2007. So it’s ...