Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monday, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Environmental Defense Fund's MethaneSAT satellite. The satellite will track ...

Google is joining a big initiative to track methane emissions from space. Google is joining a big initiative to track methane emissions from space. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the ...

While carbon dioxide gets the lion's share of attention when it comes to global warming, there are other factors at play. Methane is responsible for about 30 percent of the rise in global temperatures ...

Satellite instruments orbiting hundreds of miles above West Texas and southeastern New Mexico have measured methane pouring out of the Permian Basin at roughly double the rate that federal inventories ...

In the quest to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, detecting methane leaks – a potent contributor to global warming – has become increasingly vital. Researchers are harnessing ...

Google is planning to use satellite data, AI technology, and computing power to map methane emissions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that’s responsible for nearly a third of global warming.

Methane is very hard to track around the world, but a new satellite project could help address the issue. To help tackle this immediate crisis, Google and the Environmental Defense Fund are teaming up ...

Google, a technology leader, has joined forces with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to address one of the most pressing climate challenges: the reduction of methane emissions. Methane, a potent ...

Leaking methane has escaped regulators’ scrutiny for years. Can satellite tracking change that? Leaking methane has escaped regulators’ scrutiny for years. Can satellite tracking change that? is a ...

A list of the top 10 global regions where natural or anthropogenic sources emit methane on a continuous, "persistent" basis was recently published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The study ...

A study by the University of Bremen has identified 217 potential persistent methane source regions, estimated their emissions and created a global map of their distribution. The data was from the ...