Warming temperatures can ramp up the activity of methane-producing bacteria in wetland soils, adding to methane emissions.

Rising temperatures could tip the scale in an underground battle that has raged for millennia. In the soils of Earth’s wetlands, microbes are fighting to both produce and consume the powerful ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

methane and ammonia. Recent experiments suggest that those sprays of water may have helped jump-start chemical reactions that produced the building blocks of life. According to Stanford University ...

It exists naturally as a molecule. Each methane molecule has a central carbon atom joined to and surrounded by four hydrogen atoms. The chemical formula of methane is CH₄. Cows and other farm ...

According to a study published in Science Advances today (January 15), they also produce the greenhouse gas methane. As global water temperatures rise, cyanobacterial blooms are predicted to ...

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but there is far less of it in the atmosphere and it does not stay there as long. Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon ...

Lake Siljan is the largest of several lakes in the Siljan Ring area, a 370-million-year-old impact crater in central Sweden formed by a meteorite strike. Natural methane seepage from lakes in this ...

Methane hydrates occur in five geographic settings (or sectors) that must be individually evaluated to determine their susceptibility to warming climate (Figure 1). The percentages assigned to ...