The craters that periodically appear in northern Siberia are thought to be linked to climate change (Credit: Getty Images) A new methane-monitoring satellite is turning a powerful eye on methane from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known as “will-o’-the-wisp, ...

Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known as “will-o’-the-wisp,” “jack-o’-lantern,” “corpse candle” and “ignis fatuus” (“foolish fire ...

Learn more about the Will-o’-the-Wisp and how this mysterious phenomenon, which has inspired faerie folklore, may actually be bursts of methane gas. For centuries, will-o’-the-wisp has puzzled ...

On any warm afternoon at a tropical reservoir, you can sometimes see it with the naked eye: clusters of bubbles breaking the surface in irregular bursts, each one carrying a small charge of methane ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can pack more than 25 times the global warming punch of carbon dioxide, and atmospheric methane emissions have been growing significantly since 2007. So it’s ...

The image is surreal: a frozen lake, a scientist kneeling on the ice, and then a sheet of flame racing across the surface as trapped gas turns the air itself into fuel. What looks like a stunt is in ...

In mid winter, Lake Baikal can look like someone trapped pearls inside glass. Those “pearls” are gas bubbles, often methane, rising from the lakebed and getting sealed into the ice as the surface ...