The University of California, Irvine has been granted $1 million to develop a unique laboratory for the research of clean energy obtained from methane hydrates, an as-yet untapped source of methane ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have recreated the high-pressure, low-temperature conditions of the seafloor in a tabletop apparatus for the study of ...

How’s this for innovative: A Berkeley Lab-led team hopes to engineer a new enzyme that efficiently converts methane to liquid transportation fuel. There's a lot of methane available, and we want to ...

Microorganisms growing in landfills, on agricultural land and in wetlands are contributing to skyrocketing levels of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to new research. Microbes ...

Archaea are a major branch of life, but we still have a lot to learn about these microbes, which were only discovered in the 1970s. They are now known to play a variety of roles in environmental ...

Construction of a laboratory that will monitor methane gas extraction and the ecological stability of Lake Kivu is expected to be complete in November this year, officials have said. ALSO READ: REMA ...

SINGAPORE – Like extracting a biological sample to gauge a person’s health, a researcher from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) sticks a needle into a sealed box with a rice plant inside to draw ...