Sentences with phrase «more methane»

There's also some evidence that as the climate warms growing rice becomes less climate friendly, because it produces more methane.

As high latitudes warm under climate change, they are likely to release more methane, which will in turn boost warming, in what is known as a positive feedback.

At their highest, the bursts contained about 10 times more methane than the background in the atmosphere.

The warmer seas then continue to thaw and thus release even more methane deposits from the sea floor.

But strangely, they seem to produce far more methane than they release into the atmosphere.

New wetlands mean new plants — which means more methane.

Burning more methane continues the trouble of burning fossil fuels.

Moreover, there is compelling evidence that the industry is releasing a lot more methane than is currently accounted for in government inventories.

This instrument delivers important, and sobering, studies — such as the recent finding that as anthropogenic (human - caused) warming occurs, lakes naturally emit more methane which accelerates the warming further (or makes our cuts in emission worth more, if you want to look at the positive side).

high - fibre diets produce more methane gas in the large intestine than the low - fibre diet, suggesting that painful gut gas retention could be avoided by cutting back on high - fibre food

Makemake is very much a Pluto analog — it has both methane and nitrogen detected on the surface, but unlike Pluto there is less nitrogen, so more methane atoms are in contact with each other.

One of the most recent studies found 50 percent more methane from Texas» Barnett Shale than estimated by the EPA.

The team showed that small temperature changes can release much more methane from wetland soils to the atmosphere.

So what we need to do is feed them even more for more methane production.»

As the shale gas boom continues, the atmosphere receives more methane, adding to Earth's greenhouse gas problem.

They also make more methane at higher temperatures, which doesn't bode well given Earth's toasty future.

Billions of years ago, however, geological processes could have been releasing significantly more methane into the atmosphere.

«If one company reports 4 percent lost gas consistently across years and another reports 1 percent, wouldn't you expect the first company's pipelines to be responsible for more methane leakage to the atmosphere?»

Storms bring up more methane Pulses of the methane bubbles are often triggered by storms, which churn up the water and allow the bubbles to quickly make their way up to the surface, the study found.

The World Bank estimates that the 5.3 trillion cubic feet (150 billion cubic meters) of natural gas that bubbles up at oil wells worldwide adds some 400 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year — as well as more methane.

When doctoral student Jordan Angle analyzed the samples, he found something strange: Soils that were rich in oxygen contained more methane than soils that lacked oxygen.

It matters, of course, what the ratio of transformed to untransformed heaters is and that ratio has been rising for quite some time... i.e., there's now more methane atoms per CO2 atom than there was 100 years ago.

The study, by the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, estimates that beavers are indirectly producing 200 times more methane today than they were in 1900, when fur hunting had largely wiped out the populations in North American, Europe and Asia.

The warming caused by the gas could destabilise permafrost further, they fear, leading to yet more methane release.

But Petrenko also found that humans appear to be contributing more methane to the atmosphere through fossil fuel use and extraction than scientists previously believed.

It turns out that where there is lightning — whether on Earth or worlds away — there is slightly more methane and carbon monoxide.

The team reported last year in Geophysical Research Letters that as currents scouring the seafloor increase in intensity, more methane seeps out of the mounds.

«Nanobubbles may bring more methane into contact with water and enhance hydrate formation efficiency,» said Alavi.

That's not taking into account other factors such as a lengthening of the ice - free season, which would also put more methane into the air.

For example, yard waste in Florida in December will likely break down a lot quicker in landfills and create more methane gas than the same amount of yard waste in Minnesota during the same month.

Many researchers had hoped to use nanoporous materials to build car tanks that could store more methane in less space.

«Chinese coal is gassier and holds more methane [than that in the United States], but that doesn't explain the discrepancy.

Leading to more methane collection and more room for waste without more landfills.

But until manufacturers can find a way to pack more methane into a tank at lower pressures and temperatures, allowing for a greater driving range and less hassle at the pump, passenger cars are unlikely to adopt natural gas as a fuel.

«One source of potent greenhouse gas pinned down: Results suggest more methane may be released into atmosphere than thought.»