This would-be catastrophe is fire-ice, the oxymoronic compound frozen deep under the ocean floor. As the oceans are warming, fire-ice is slowly melting and emitting the greenhouse gas methane into ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Today's technology could extract enough untapped natural gas, frozen in Alaska's North ... the natural gas hydrates -- essentially methane gas trapped in ice.

So when you stab the frozen surface, it releases pockets of the gas that you can then light up. It may look like a fun party trick but there's more to this effect than meets the eye. Methane isn't ...

Gas rushing from the hole ignites with ... trying to figure out how to tap the largest one of all—the methane hydrates that lie frozen under vast areas of seafloor and Arctic permafrost.

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide ... These include the melting of permafrost, the layer of previously permanently frozen ice within soil in polar and sub-polar regions.

Permafrost, the frozen layer of soil that covers ... with technologies to detect and fix leaks in natural gas infrastructure.

Frozen food has a surprising, yet essential role in the fight against climate change. The individual action of including frozen food in meals can result in positively contributing to climate change.

An alien, underwater world could hold the answers to China's energy security, scientists say, as they work to unlock its ...

A frozen lake near Wudaoliang on the Qinghai ... the thawing of lake ice could accelerate the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. A new study published in Advances ...

While methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, it also has complex chemical interactions in the atmosphere that can affect ozone levels. Understanding these dual ...

Geology 23, 527-530 (1995). Dickens, G. R., Down the rabbit hole: Toward appropriate discussion of methane release from gas hydrate systems during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and other ...