Turning dangerous waste into something useful may sound futuristic, but it’s becoming a reality. Scientists from Vienna University of Technology have developed a new way to turn battery waste and used ...

Why it's incredible: The entire gas crater has been on fire for more than 50 years. The "Gates of Hell," also known as the Darvaza gas crater after a nearby village, is a methane- and fire-filled ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Flames of burning methane near a well in the Bakken Oil ...

Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid fuel. Chemists from Northwestern University have developed a way to convert ...

The catalytic combustion of methane offers a pathway to convert methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into carbon dioxide and water at temperatures significantly lower than those required for conventional ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane remain "far too high" ...

One of the worst methane leaks ever recorded was detected from a remote well in Kazakhstan. "The magnitude and the duration of the leak is frankly unusual," said Manfredi Caltagirone, head of the UN's ...

When it comes to cutting planet-warming emissions, there’s a hopeful story to be told in methane, a greenhouse gas that heats a majority of Massachusetts buildings in the form of natural gas, and that ...