News articles tagged with 'methane'
Cassini spacecraft observes seasonal rains on Titan
— 18 Mar 2011 14:24 | AstronomyAs spring continues to unfold on Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's…
Northern peatlands a misunderstood player in climate change
— 15 Mar 2011 21:23 | EnvironmentUniversity of Alberta researchers have determined that the influence of northern peatlands on the prehistorical record of climate change has been over estimated, but the vast northern…
Penn physicists develop scalable method for making graphene
— 3 Mar 2011 13:14 | PhysicsNew research from the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates a more consistent and cost-effective method for making graphene, the atomic-scale material that has promising applications…
This microbe's for you: Brewery waste becomes scientific fodder for producing liquid biofuels
— 28 Feb 2011 16:24 | EnvironmentGaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial…
Study finds massive flux of gas, in addition to liquid oil, at BP well blowout in Gulf
— 13 Feb 2011 21:13 | EnvironmentA new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge…
Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
— 4 Feb 2011 16:49 | AstronomyEvery day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes' London, the moon looks…
Cardiff scientists make hydrocarbon breakthrough using gold catalyst
— 14 Jan 2011 15:53 | ChemistryResearchers from Cardiff University are opening up a new way of using hydrocarbon feedstocks to make a range of valuable products…
NOAA-led team measures atmosphere's self-cleaning capacity
— 8 Jan 2011 13:54 | EnvironmentAn international, NOAA-led research team took a significant step forward in understanding the atmosphere's ability to cleanse itself of air pollutants and some other gases, except carbon…
Freshwater methane release changes greenhouse gas equation
— 8 Jan 2011 13:39 | EnvironmentAn international team of scientists has released data indicating that greenhouse gas uptake by continents is less than previously thought because of methane emissions from freshwater…
Chemistry for greenhouse gases
— 30 Nov 2010 21:57 | ChemistryIf fossil fuels burn completely, the end products are carbon dioxide and water. Today the carbon dioxide is a waste product, one that goes into the air - adding to global warming; or…