Bacteria ate up methane from Gulf spill, say scientists

Last Updated: Friday, January 7, 2011, 18:14

Bacteria ate up the methane released from Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulf of Mexico in 4 months.

27 taken ill due to `increased emission` at Durgapur steel plant

Last Updated: Friday, July 16, 2010, 00:16

At least 27 workers were taken ill after "increased emission" of carbon monoxide and methane from a blast furnace of Durgapur Steel Plant this morning, a day after a chlorine gas leak in Bombay Port Trust landed over hundred people in hospital.

8mn tonnes of methane seeping out from Arctic annually: Study

Last Updated: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 17:57

Methane, the second most common greenhouse gas from human activities after carbon dioxide, is bubbling out from the frozen Arctic much faster than expected and could stoke global warming, scientists have warned.

Cow Genome mapped; can help cut methane emissions

Last Updated: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 13:45

: Cows release a lot of greenhouse gas when they digest, but a new study has mapped the DNA from one of the culprits -- a bacteria species.

Aerosols can make methane more potent than previously thought

Last Updated: Friday, October 30, 2009, 18:40

A new study has led climate modelers to determine that an aerosol-laden sky could make methane a more potent greenhouse gas than previously thought.

When Indian scientist disproved US data on methane emission

Last Updated: Monday, October 19, 2009, 12:04

India`s leading agro-scientist A.P. Mitra had disproved the US govt data on emission of methane gas from wet paddy cultivation.

Chhattisgarh gets USD 5 lakh for clean bed methane project

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 11:42

The US Trade and Development Agency has announced half a million dollar grant to reduce methane emission in the coal mines of Chhattisgarh.

"Supervillain" CO2 has "henchmen" like NO2 and methane

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 17:48

There are harmful greenhouse gases like nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane, which are the "henchmen" of CO2.

Plants under stress emit more methane

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 15:07

Methane emission by plants in dry or drought prone areas could aggravate global warming more than previously suspected, says a new study.

Ultra fast destruction of Martian methane spells bad news for life

Last Updated: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 18:18

New calculations suggest that methane gas on Mars may be destroyed 600 times faster than it is on Earth, and possibly in as little as one hour, which is bad news for scientists hoping to find life on the Red Planet.