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For the first time ever, a natural gas company is being sued by a local government for misleading customers about climate change.

A Natural Gas Company Just Became the First to Be Sued Over Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came across mysterious puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day.

NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night

By Victor Tangermann

After analyzing 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells in Svalbard, researchers discovered that half of them struck accumulations of methane gas.

Something Dreadful Thawing Out of the Permafrost, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese engineers have successfully test-fired a space rocket engine, which runs on — not even joking — locally-sourced cow poop.

Japan Tests Rocket Engine Powered by Cow Dung

By Sharon Adarlo

ISS astronauts are quite literally on a mission to save the Earth – or at least to show us which areas are home to the biggest polluters.

Astronauts Spot World’s Largest Polluters from Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

The levels of oxygen on Mars increase and decrease over the year in a way that just doesn't make sense to scientists, a new paper reveals.

Science & Energy

“Mind Boggling” Behavior of Oxygen on Mars Has NASA Stumped

By Kristin Houser

Scientists are suggesting that the methane-filled lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan could have been formed by massive explosions.

Science & Energy

Huge Explosions May Have Formed Lakes on Saturn’s Moon Titan

By Victor Tangermann

To prevent farm animals from contribute to methane emissions, scientists suggest feeding them foods less likely to produce the greenhouse gas.

Gut Microbe Manipulation Could End Climate-Destroying Sheep Farts

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Curiosity Rover just found methane readings at a Martian site to be three times as high as the previously record level — posssibly a sign of life.

Science & Energy

New NASA Rover Discovery Hints at Signs of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists from Stanford University are arguing that we should be converting methane into more carbon dioxide to help with climate change.

Scientists’ Startling Idea to Fight Climate Change: More CO2

By Victor Tangermann

A new astronomical study found out where the methane on Mars is coming from, and once again confirmed that it's there at all.

Astronomers Found Mars’ Missing Methane

By Dan Robitzski

For the last 15 years, NASA and ESA scientists have found signs of methane in Mars' atmosphere. But a recent survey by an ESA orbiter didn't find any.

Scientists Thought Mars Was Covered in Methane. Now It’s Missing

By Dan Robitzski

New Satellite Could Help Rat Out Methane Polluters

New Satellite Could Help Rat Out Methane Polluters

By Claudia Geib

Hacking a Cow’s Gut Bacteria Could Make More Meat, Less Pollution

Hacking a Cow’s Gut Bacteria Could Make More Meat, Less Pollution

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Assert Climate Change is Allowing Greenhouse Gases to Escape From Melting Permafrost

Scientists Assert Climate Change is Allowing Greenhouse Gases to Escape From Melting Permafrost

Researchers Have Found a Way to Convert CO2 Into a Usable Fuel

Renewable Energy

Researchers Have Found a Way to Convert CO2 Into a Usable Fuel