Latest Methane Stories

ALBANY, New York, October 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com)" Coal Bed Methane Market - Global Industry Size, Market Share, Trends, Analysis, and Forecast, 2010 - 2018 [http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/coal-bed-methane-market.html ]", the global market for coal bed methane was estimated to be 2,932 bcf in 2010 which is expected to reach market volumes of...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study led by the University of California, Davis finds that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, coupled with rising temperatures, is making rice agriculture a larger source of the potent greenhouse gas methane. Relatively simple changes in rice cultivation, according to the study, could help reduce methane emissions. "Together, higher carbon dioxide concentrations and warmer temperatures predicted for the end of this...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online An astronomy graduate student from New Mexico State University is looking into the possibility of finding life on Mars through detecting traces of methane gas. Malynda Chizek made a presentation during the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting about her research studying the possible detection of methane gas on Mars. "There is an instrument onboard the Curiosity Rover -- which landed on Mars in...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Analysis of the Greenland ice sheet is allowing scientists to trace the emissions of the greenhouse gas methane back thousands of years. A research team, led by the Niels Bohr Institute, has determined how much methane originates from natural sources and how much is due to human activity using special analytical methods. The resulting data can be dated back to Roman times and up to the present. More than half the emissions today are...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Newlight Technologies, LLC announced today that it has been awarded a seventh patent related to the conversion of greenhouse gases, such as waste methane and carbon dioxide, into biodegradable PHA plastics. The new patent, U.S. Patent #8,263,373, joins Newlight's multi-layered and continually-expanding portfolio of intellectual property, which now includes seven U.S. and international patents and hundreds of additional filed patent...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Life on earth began in the oceans, but it would eventually spread to land and a new study suggests that land-dwelling bacteria could have covered large swaths of territory about 2.7 billion years ago, despite a thin ozone layer that would have offered little protection against the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. According to astrobiologists at the University of Washington, these earliest microbes produced oxygen and broke down pyrite,...

Expedition to the Greenland Sea with Surprising Results Marine scientists from Kiel, together with colleagues from Bremen, Great Britain, Switzerland and Norway, spent four and a half weeks examining methane emanation from the sea bed off the coast of Spitsbergen with the German research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN. There they gained a very differentiated picture: Several of the gas outlets have been active for hundreds of years. Frequent storms and sub-zero temperatures – nature drove the...

PHOENIX, WASHINGTON and PRAGUE, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearEnergySystems, Inc. (CES), an innovator in mobile and distributed power generation systems, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its relationship with SARNPower, LLC by concluding an exclusive master distribution agreement. SARN Power will market, service, commercialize and distribute CES power generation products throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Through this...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While searching for new and more effective antibiotics, a team of biologists and chemists has stumbled upon the mechanism responsible for the deep ocean production of methane, a greenhouse gas that drives climate change. Researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Washington began their studies examining microbes’ production of phosphonates that these tiny creatures use to disrupt bacteria and other microscopic...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A recent study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet suggests that it could be a largely overlooked source of the potent greenhouse gas methane. An international team of scientists from the University of Bristol, the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and the University of Utrecht, demonstrate that old organic matter in sedimentary basins located beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been converted to...