Methane is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas (GHG) that is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Most methane comes from human activities - roughly 60 percent - such as agriculture, fossil fuels ...

Far more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world than ...

On Thursday, the climate-data sleuths at Carbon Mapper published a study in Science that shows U.S. landfills emit methane at levels ... The researchers found these super-emitting points can ...

Rob Jackson, professor of environmental science at Stanford University, who was not involved with the study, said landfills were “super-emitters.” “Airborne data such as these verify what we ...

Landfill trash is the third-largest source of human-caused methane pollution in the US. To fight global heating, curb waste ...

Around 52% of landfills had observable methane emission point sources compared to the 0.2% to 1% of "super-emitter" sites in the oil and gas sector, the largest U.S. source of methane. Super ...

The U.S. EPA’s latest inventory of greenhouse gas emissions also tallied emissions from municipal solid waste combustion and anaerobic digestion.

so we can pinpoint methane super-emitters to the specific well pad, compressor station or section of a landfill. You can see an example of the power of remote sensing in our recent paper in the ...

The U.S. tosses, on average, 350 pounds of edible grub per person a year, which ranks it among the biggest wasters in the ...

Arizona State University Landfills in the United States are ... more than half of these facilities are methane “super-emitters,” releasing more than 100 kilograms of the potent greenhouse ...