An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf ...

The U.S. Energy Department is excited about what it calls unprecedented tests on Alaska's North Slope that produced a steady flow of gas from methane hydrates. These are structures that look like ice ...

For Oman, methane hydrates could present significant long-term strategic opportunities by strengthening future energy ...

For decades, the "clathrate gun hypothesis" was treated by the mainstream scientific establishment as a fringe nightmare—a scenario where warming oceans and thawing permafrost would release massive ...

In October 2025, the flame used in the lighting ceremony for China's 15th National Games was sourced from methane hydrate, or combustible ...

Researchers at Northwestern University in the US have successfully produced methanol from methane gas using a lightning plasma in glass tubes. The achievement demonstrates that the potential for ...

A landfill in Chile. An oil well in Turkmenistan. A coal mine in China. These are among the world’s biggest sources of planet-warming methane, identified in a new analysis by the United Nations ...

Scientists have discovered that methane in the open ocean is produced by microbes under nutrient-poor conditions, solving a long-standing mystery. As warming oceans reduce nutrient mixing, these ...