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Permafrost is known as one of the most important sources of methane and carbon dioxide on the planet. The dangerous greenhouse gases are locked inside the frosty soils, but global warming can easily bring them out. A new study now looks at how permafrost thaws in its most sensible sectors.
For the investigation, th... |
24 January 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Among astronomers, Saturn's largest moon Titan is primarily known for being the only object in the solar system other than Earth to have liquid chemicals on its surface. A group of investigators in the United States finally provides an explanation of where these chemicals originate. Both of Titan's poles ... |
5 January 2012
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A researcher teams up with the owner of a gas company and decides to find out how leaky Boston's gas system really is. Their findings are quite shocking. They indicate a severe problem represented by over 4,000 gas leaks distributed all across the historical city.
Biologist Nathan Phillips at Boston University... |
22 November 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Since the beginning of our efforts to discover alien life on other worlds, a lot of the effort has been focused on discovering exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars. But what awaits discovery if we look in the habitable zone of methane? What astronomers are focused on is planets in an area where ... |
17 November 2011
08:48 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States recently carried out a new study on how microbes in permanently-frozen soils, called permafrost, react to a warming world. This is important because permafrost retains vast amounts of greenhouse gases.
Spanning from the North Pole to the Arctic Ocean, these soils ... |
9 November 2011
06:08 GMT |
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A new study funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) uncovered that methane stored in the world's oceans may have been responsible for a drastic period of climate change and global warming that occurred more than 56 million years ago.
Researchers have been trying to figure out the most likely sou... |
9 November 2011
04:39 GMT |
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Ethylene, one of the most popular compound used in the manufacturing process of obtaining several plastic items has a great market worth nearly $160 billion every year, where innovations of all kinds are more than welcome.
Especially green ones, since the main concern of experts in this field of activity is to liber... |
8 November 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Recent studies conducted on the small object called Snow White revealed that the small world may still retain some faint traces of a former atmosphere. Some astronomers classify this world as a dwarf planet, although the debate as to what exactly this object is is still ongoing.
Past investigations conducted on the... |
20 October 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Using initial funding totaling $20 million, researchers at the San Francisco, California-based startup Siluria are now trying to develop a method of transforming methane directly into ethylene. If they succeed, then they could change the way a wide variety of plastics and chemicals are produced.
Methane is the pri... |
3 October 2011
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One of the most severe effects of global warming, and the climate change it produces, is the thawing of permafrost, the perennial-frozen soils located in Arctic regions. These lands contain vast amounts of greenhouse gases, which could be released in the atmosphere by the end of this century.Calculations show that bi... |
23 August 2011
04:47 GMT |
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When the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 was discovered four years ago, experts nicknamed it Snow White due to the fact that it has an icy surface. Now, investigators in the United States determined that the small trans-Neptunian object is also covered in a very thin film of methane.Astronomers based at the California Institu... |
23 August 2011
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For years, experts have been trying to explain why methane and ethane emissions dropped significantly at the end of the 20th century. Now, a study proposes that the phenomenon was caused by converting methane into an energy resource, which basically converted it into carbon dioxide.While CO2 is the most pervasive gre... |
13 August 2011
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the next mission to Mars has successfully completed the Mission Critical Design Review (CDR), an important milestone in its development. NASA is currently building the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, which it plans to launch to the Red Pl... |
22 July 2011
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A collaboration of American agencies are working together to analyze the amount of carbon being released from a dry lake bed in Railroad Valley, Nevada. The team is also concerned about how much of the dangerous greenhouse gas is emitted from the area surrounding the lake bed. The multi-institute team conducted its r... |
8 July 2011
07:34 GMT |
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Climate scientists know that methane is the most powerful greenhouse gas in the world, and as such keep it under close monitoring. A recent study has unfortunately revealed the effects that the gas' release could have on the atmosphere and the global climate. According to investigators, there are several million... |
5 May 2011
04:18 GMT |
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be more similar to Enceladus, another moon orbiting the planet, than astronomers first realized. New datasets appear to indicate that the former also has a liquid ocean beneath the surface. If this is confirmed, then Titan will officially become the weirdest moon ever. Some of t... |
19 April 2011
03:38 GMT |
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Investigations conducted by the NASA Cassini spacecraft late last year allowed experts to discover that the deserts on Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, were not as arid as first thought. Planetary scientists say it's no doubt the space probe readings indicate the presence of methane rain above them.At fi... |
18 March 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Later this year, NASA is scheduled to launch its next flagship mission to the Red Planet. However, experts are now raising concerns that some of the materials on the rover may start to leak methane, which would confuse the sensitive sensors on the robot into giving false readings. One of the primary areas of the miss... |
14 March 2011
05:22 GMT |
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Over the past few years, methane levels around the world have began growing, and researchers are currently scrambling to make sense of why. They are also looking to determine the most potent sources for this dangerous greenhouse gas. One of the most likely candidates is permafrost.While carbon dioxide (CO2) steals th... |
2 March 2011
05:05 GMT |
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Marine biologists and ocean scientists are currently trying to figure out a mystery that has been surrounding the Gulf of Mexico these past few weeks. Chemical analysis reveal little traces of methane, the most common hydrocarbon that was produced in these water following the 2010 oil spill. According to the results ... |
7 January 2011
10:06 GMT |
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Our planet's atmosphere is a delicate mix of various chemical compounds, that cycle through the Earth continuously. Understanding how these cycles work is essential to making sense of how the planet works as a whole, and Earth-sensing satellites of the European Space Agency are making this easier. Recently, inve... |
20 December 2010
06:26 GMT |
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As the Earth is getting warmer, climate scientists draw attention to a situation that has received very little attention over the years – that of peatlands. These soils could over the coming years turn into veritable compost bombs, capable of releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmo... |
2 December 2010
09:49 GMT |
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A team of investigators has recently determined that methane reservoirs can release significant amounts of methane gas into the atmosphere, sometimes at levels comparable to reservoirs in tropical areas. The dangerous greenhouse gas, which is about 25 percent more potent in terms of the warming effect than carbon dio... |
11 October 2010
06:41 GMT |
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A new hydrothermal vent has been discovered at 500 kilometers south-west of the Azores, by scientists from the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, thanks to the equipment on board the German research vessel Meteor. This new hydrothermal vent w... |
8 October 2010
06:41 GMT |
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A team of expert has recently published the results of a new study, which shed more light onto why methane concentrations in the Martian atmosphere get depleted at an abnormally-high speed. One of the first things researchers noticed when the first chemical analysis instruments were trained on the Martian atmosphere ... |
21 September 2010
03:31 GMT |
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Planetary scientists are currently puzzled at the fact that a hot exoplanet that was recently discovered appears to be mission the chemical methane from its atmosphere.Researchers are at a loss in explaining why the gas giant, who is larger than Jupiter, fails to show traces of the hydrocarbon, which is extremely com... |
16 September 2010
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An extrasolar planet about seven times the mass of Jupiter surprised astronomers recently, when it revealed that it featured a type of atmospheric composition that no one expected it to sport. This particular celestial body is very important to experts because it is one of the very few exoplanets that can be photogra... |
1 September 2010
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A scientific drilling for natural gas trapped inside shale rock has been launched today, on the Danish island of Bornholm by the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences along with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).This natural gas, methane, is trapped inside the dense claystone packages since t... |
11 August 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Bio-Bug is a VW Beetle modified by The Greenfuel Company to work on methane gas produced by the sewage treatment process. The project is a collaboration between the Bath-based company, GENeco, the University of Bath and the South West Regional Development Agency. This is an innovative project that wants to encourage ... |
9 August 2010
09:19 GMT |
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After wastes leave homes and businesses, they head over to treatment plants, where they are processed so that they don't contaminate the environment. This is a very complex process, given that the wastes themselves are a very complex type of matter. There are several stages to the decontamination procedure, seve... |
27 July 2010
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The first polluting country in the world makes a huge first step towards clean energy. A partnership between CSIRO Australia and China United Coalbed Methane Corporation Limited (CUCBM) will allow China to bury carbon dioxide and extract methane, further used as an energy source.This initiative will allow two thousan... |
22 July 2010
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Astrobiologists have for a long time recognized the difference between assessing the possibility that life ever existed on the Red Planet, and determining the chances that it may have survived to this day. The issues are very separate from each other in the sense that, even if life once existed on Mars billions of ye... |
5 June 2010
06:56 GMT |
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It could be that our planet has a lot more in common with Saturn's largest moon Titan than experts first thought possible. In a new investigation, carried out by experts at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB), it was revealed that the thick haze which constituted Earth's primordial atmosphere was mo... |
4 June 2010
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Traditionally, treating wastewater and other refuse is a very energy-intensive process, which requires numerous components in order to function. The process is extremely complex, and features numerous species of bacteria, each of which has its special environmental requirements. But now, experts propose a new species... |
7 May 2010
08:44 GMT |
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A group of experts using the Hubble space telescope has recently uncovered a few peculiarities on the surface of Pluto, one of the outermost planets in our solar system. Datasets recovered from the famous observatory revealed the existence of alternating bright and dark spots on the celestial body, and many experts w... |
30 April 2010
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According to geological records and other data, our planet heated considerably about 55 million years ago, when temperatures skyrocketed by about 5 degrees Celsius. If this were to happen today, all ice caps would melt, and sea levels would rise to swallow major cities such as Tokyo, New York, Rotterdam and so on. Ex... |
24 April 2010
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Using their Chile-based Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) managed to conduct a unique survey of Neptune's moon Triton. The investigation, which was made in infrared wavelengths, revealed an astounding fact, namely that the southern hemisphere of the small space ... |
7 April 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Microbiologists are in awe, after the discovery of a new species of bacteria that can apparently synthesize its own oxygen. The microorganism actually thrives on methane, as it lives in a very specific layer of mud at the bottom of lakes and other bodies of water, where the hydrocarbon abounds, but oxygen is nearly i... |
25 March 2010
03:28 GMT |
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Scientists peering over old and recent images of the gas giant Neptune, the eight planet from the Sun, were recently amazed to discover an eerily familiar pattern in the way clouds at the planet's south pole were behaving. Their analysis revealed that the region was at the moment battered by what ... |
19 March 2010
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Over the past few years, as advanced imaging and research technology became available to research groups around the world, scientists have determined that Antarctica is not actually a block of solid ice. Trapped underneath its surface are very large underground lakes, as well as extensive water sheets, which may be h... |
17 March 2010
05:14 GMT |
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According to an international group of experts, it would appear that one of the most important sections of the Arctic Ocean seafloor is becoming unstable. This is extremely dangerous, because this particular location holds vast amounts of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, which it recently began venting out. Meth... |
5 March 2010
03:05 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that many trees act like giant chimneys for microbes, releasing the methane gas the microorganisms produce into the planet's atmosphere. This is extremely dangerous when considering that levels of the potent greenhouse gas, which is a lot more harmful than car... |
17 February 2010
05:29 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking, new find, astronomers announce that they've managed to identify glowing methane gas in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. The finding has been made using a ground-based observatory, as opposed to an orbit-based one, so experts believe that many more such discoveries could be in store for us ove... |
5 February 2010
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Recently, flybys that the NASA/ESA spacecraft Cassini made of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have uncovered the existence of giant lakes at the space rock's north and south poles. In addition to the fact that these features appear to be moving with each season, they are also filled with something, and resear... |
29 January 2010
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Some 5,000 years ago, the amount of methane in our atmosphere suddenly spiked, in a strange phenomenon that went unexplained for a very long time. One of the earliest ideas as to what happened says that the onset of extensive rice cultivation in Asia might have had something to do with this. This proposal has gained ... |
14 January 2010
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Scientists determined a long time ago that Mars' atmosphere would make all of the planet's methane resources disintegrate within only a few hundred years. But, seeing how this decrease does not manifest itself, astronomers believe that the methane gas may actually be replenished from somewhere else on the p... |
9 December 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Astronomical investigations of Saturn's moon Titan have revealed over the past few years that the celestial body has numerous methane and ethane lakes adorning its surface. As more and more data sets on the lakes were made available through observations by the Cassini spacecraft and other instruments, researcher... |
30 November 2009
02:31 GMT |
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A group of American researchers, based at the University of Washington (UW), and at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (UNC) has recently managed to take an important step forward in its quest of finding a method of converting methane gas into a liquid fuel. The innovation could see a lot more uses for m... |
23 October 2009
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China has finished building the largest hydroelectric plant in the world, the 7,661-foot-long Three Gorges Dam, on the Yangtze River, only for a short time. Elevated to the rank of national symbol, the dam has already come under criticism from environmentalists, who say that it may be a potent methane source. During ... |
30 September 2009
05:41 GMT |
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According to a newly released report from the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) released today, September 2nd, it would appear that the current warming trend recorded in the Arctic could have massive repercussions on our planet. The study shows that as much as one quarter of the globe's population could be floode... |
2 September 2009
01:42 GMT |
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