Methane

World+Biz

US and EU announce global plan on methane emissions at COP26

US President Joe Biden, addressing the conference, opened by thanking everyone who has signed this "game-changing commitment" on reducing methane emissions

A person walks past a sign during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Phil Noble

World+Biz

Global climate talks deliver moves to cut methane and deforestation

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison leaves Downing Street in London, Britain, June 15, 2021. Photo :Reuters

World+Biz

Australia rejects global methane pledge, but New Zealand might say yes

A pipeline that moves methane gas from the Frank R. Bowerman landfill to an onsite power plant is shown in Irvine, California, California, U.S., June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Europe

EU lawmakers back clampdown on potent greenhouse gas methane

Calgren's renewable fuels facility that cleans dairy methane into natural gas is shown in Pixley, California, US, October 2, 2019. Picture taken October 2, 2019. Photo :Reuters

Environment

US, EU pursuing global deal to slash planet-warming methane -documents

Photo of excavators piling up waste materials in Matuail landfill. Photo: Collected

Climate Change

Matuail landfill’s per hour methane emission equivalent of running nearly 2 lakh cars, says study

FILE PHOTO: Methane bubbles are seen in an area of marshland at a research post at Stordalen Mire near Abisko, Sweden, August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Environment

Urgent methane cuts needed to rein in climate change: UN

Representational image. Photo: Saikat Bhadra/TBS

Bangladesh

Mysterious plumes of methane gas appear over Bangladesh

FILE PHOTO: Hanson Rowe, a landowner who blames a leaky gas well on his property for health problems, smells for the odor of gas emanating from an abandoned well on his property in Salyersville, Kentucky, US, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston

World+Biz

Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace

Photo: Oil and gas tanks are seen at an oil warehouse at a port in Zhuhai, China October 22, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Song

World+Biz

Oil and gas firms 'have had much worse climate impact than thought'

Climate Change