Before Seattle Public School spent $300 million to rebuild Rainier Beach High School on a peat bog, scientists hired by the ...

The presence of highly flammable methane gas has been confirmed at the Kaul Festival site in Oya near here, following an ...

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is investigating an old landfill site emitting methane onto nearby properties in Fayetteville, DEQ and Cumberland County officials said this ...

There's more methane gas in the atmosphere than there used to be, by every scientific measure. The Obama administration has been trying to stem the increase of this powerful greenhouse gas, but the ...

The image is surreal: a frozen lake, a scientist kneeling on the ice, and then a sheet of flame racing across the surface as ...

The City of Newport Beach declared a local emergency after methane gas was discovered seeping from an abandoned oil well beneath a home on the Balboa Peninsula, prompting an evacuation order for ...

Editor’s Note: This article with a revised headline has been updated to include additional information from the developer and Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy for readers.

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...