Far north in the Fram Strait, scientists from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working with colleagues including the ...

Despite the wide disparity of views among experts about remaining recoverable hydrocarbon resources and the timing of peak production of conventional reserves, certain trends are not in dispute: Crude ...

Methane has a greenhouse effect 80 times worse than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, and emissions are skyrocketing even as we start reducing CO2. That makes UCF's new hydrocarbon-capturing, ...

This study provides new ways to turn methane and nitrous oxide into value-added substances, contributing to the decarbonization of the chemical industry. Methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes ...

Methane, the main constituent of natural gas and biogas, is deemed to be an alternative source to replace crude oil to produce chemicals and fuels. Direct non-oxidative methane conversion (NMC) has ...

A new test that produced methane under conditions mimicking the deep interiors of Earth and Mars lends support to an idea that the gas could theoretically support unseen colonies of microbes on both ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--A team of University of Minnesota scientists has discovered how iron- and chromium-rich rocks can generate natural gas (methane) and related hydrocarbons when reacted with ...

THE importance of the formation of condensation products by thermal decomposition of methane is of interest to chemists and petroleum technologists alike, the latter being confronted with the problem ...

Early Earth "seesawed" between clear skies and haze, a new study finds. The research, published online March 18 in the journal Nature Geoscience, found that 2.5 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere ...

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