Scientists found methane escaping from beneath Greenland glaciers, suggesting the ice sheet once retreated much farther than ...

Methanol is a high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day as fuel for ships and ...

A colossal underwater volcano in the South Pacific may have revealed a surprising new weapon against climate change. After ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising climate twist from one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in modern history: a ...

Scientists have unveiled a sunlight-powered catalyst that transforms methane—the main component of natural gas—directly into ethanol, a high-value liquid fuel and chemical feedstock. The new material, ...

A glass tube with metal fixtures at either end contains wires holding a fine filament in the center, and the filament is glowing. A dual-temperature “lightbulb” reactor converts methane to ethylene ...

Inside every cow’s rumen, trillions of microbes wage a quiet chemical war over hydrogen. Among them are ciliates, ...

If you have ever heard of the claylike mineral known as zeolite, chances are you share your home with a cat. You may also know that it comes in a powder, and that it is good at wicking out liquids and ...

A comet born around another star is carrying methane, and the chemical details of that methane are unlike anything ...

In the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought global industry and travel nearly to a halt, satellite sensors recorded a dramatic plunge in nitrogen dioxide, a byproduct of internal ...