Environmental stories tagged with: methane

According to a report published in Conservation Letters, kangaroos can be utilised to help reduce Australia's methane emissions. It proposes that eating more kangaroos in lieu of cattle and sheep will help slow climate change.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's annual Greenhouse Gas Index, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen by 19 billion tons (0.6%); methane levels have risen by 27 million tons after nearly a decade with little or no increase.

A new species of bacteria discovered living in one of the most extreme environments on Earth could yield a tool in the fight against global warming.

Announced today in the international journal Science, the new plastic membrane allows carbon dioxide and other small molecules to move through its hourglass-shaped pores while preventing the movement of larger molecules like methane.