The University of California, Irvine has been granted $1 million to develop a unique laboratory for the research of clean energy obtained from methane hydrates, an as-yet untapped source of methane ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have recreated the high-pressure, low-temperature conditions of the seafloor in a tabletop apparatus for the study of ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, along with several partners, including Stanford University and UC Riverside, received a $6 million grant from the California Energy Commission to develop a ...

How’s this for innovative: A Berkeley Lab-led team hopes to engineer a new enzyme that efficiently converts methane to liquid transportation fuel. There's a lot of methane available, and we want to ...

A process and related technology that research at the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) helped to develop could enhance the use of natural gas and the world’s vast ...

Archaea are a major branch of life, but we still have a lot to learn about these microbes, which were only discovered in the 1970s. They are now known to play a variety of roles in environmental ...

East of Hazar, Turkmenistan, a port city on the Caspian Sea, 12 plumes of methane stream westward. Some of the plumes, detected by NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission, ...

Title image: The Pantanal, located in South America, is the world's largest tropical wetland. Tropical wetlands are responsible for about a fifth of the world's methane emissions. (Credit: ...

SINGAPORE – Like extracting a biological sample to gauge a person’s health, a researcher from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) sticks a needle into a sealed box with a rice plant inside to draw ...