Sentences with phrase «ton of methane»

They found bacteria had eliminated more than 120,000 metric tons of methane, essentially returning the concentrations in the area to normal.

Some scientists believe that microbes under the ice may have produced billions of tons of methane — a potent greenhouse gas that could escape as the ice retreats, causing warming to accelerate.

The California Air Resources Board's final estimate determined that SoCalGas released between 90,350 to 109,000 metric tons of methane into the atmosphere.

Since 1992, our donations avoided generating more than 2 million metric tons of methane from food decomposition in landfills.

Their results reveal that leaks increased by nearly 990,000 and 530,000 tons of methane per year for the Bakken and Eagle Ford fields, respectively, from 2006 to 2008 and 2009 to 2011.

Who wants lame cows anyways?Scientists estimate that if every farmer in the UK adoped this regimen, they could collectively save 1.6 million tons of methane emissions every year.

China is by far the most significant contributor of methane emissions from coal mining operations, accounting for more than half of the world's estimated 27.8 million metric tons of methane released due to coal mining in 2010.

More than a trillion tons of methane lie trapped in permafrost and under frozen lakes in the Arctic.

«Obviously, no one's ever going to allow us to dump tons of methane into the ocean to simulate one of these natural massive eruptions,» says Kessler.

A new study of wax from fossilized plants of the time suggests that 12 trillion tons of methane gas entered the atmosphere over just a few tens of thousands of years.

Arctic Sea gushing tons of methane skyward as permafrost melts, let's hope it's not too late to save ourselves.

Using estimates based on measurements from sediments collected beneath the Greenland ice sheet — a comparable but much thinner analog to the Antarctic ice sheet — the team calculated that there could be as much as 3.9 million imperial tons of methane hidden beneath the Antarctic ice.

A study last year from the University of Washington team calculated that methane hydrate decomposition will potentially release about 0.1 million metric tons of methane annually into the sediments off the coast of Washington at the rate the ocean is warming.

An unprecedented 91 thousand tons of methane spilled into the atmosphere.

[1] The combined seeps in the field release about 40 tons of methane per day and about 19 tons of reactive organic gas (ethane, propane, butane and higher hydrocarbons); about twice the hydrocarbon air pollution released by all the cars and trucks in Santa Barbara County in 1990.

Right now, oil and gas companies are losing hundreds of millions of tons of methane each year, which wastes, in turn, hundreds of millions worth of natural gas.

A recent study in the journal Nature Geoscience also suggests the 1945 earthquake released tons of methane from the seafloor.

But the regulations will likely be overshadowed by the ongoing saga in Aliso Canyon, Calif., where a leaking natural gas storage field continues to belch thousands of tons of methane into the air every week.

Without the rules, oil and gas companies have been venting or flaring over 15,000 metric tons of methane from publicly - owned oil and gas leases into the air each year — essentially tossing taxpayer money into the air.

Cow flatulence produces 100 million tons of methane every year, approximately 20 % of the earth's total emissions.

One plume expanded to include more than 20,000 tons of methane, comparable to the output of the Santa Barbara seep, one of the largest geological methane sources on Earth.

The blowout spewed more than 100,000 tons of methane to the atmosphere, the study in the 26 February issue of Science reports, making it the biggest methane leak from anthropogenic sources in the United States.

Using his measurements and those from land - based efforts, he and his coauthors suggest that atmospheric leak rates from the blowout were up to 66 tons of methane and 4.9 tons of ethane per hour at times.

At its peak, this blowout effectively doubled themethane emission rate of the entire Los Angeles basin and, in total, released 97,100 metric tons of methane to the atmosphere.

Analysis of methane and ethane data from dozens of plume transects, collected during 13 research - aircraft flights between 7 November 2015 and 13 February 2016, shows atmospheric leak rates of up to 60 metric tons of methane and 4.5 metric tons of ethane per hour.

One of the areas she's researching — pig farming — seems like a strange choice until she explains that the largest Israeli pig farm produces an estimated 1000 tons of methane — a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than CO2 — every year.

For a 600 - year lifetime, a little over 100 metric tons of methane would have to be produced each year to maintain a constant global average of 10 ppbv.

One - sentence summary: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor confirmed that a key bacterial enzyme uses a methyl radical to produce methane; this study settles a debate as to the mechanism certain bacteria use to produce millions of metric tons of methane each year and potentially offers insights into improving routes to methane for use as a chemical feedstock or fuel.

In a single year, microorganisms, including many living in the ocean and decaying swamps, form and consume at least a billion tons of methane.

The massive leak near Los Angeles, at a site called Aliso Canyon, forced thousands of people to evacuate homes in the prosperous Porter Ranch suburb for nearly four months and spewed nearly 100,000 tons of methane into the air.

These anomalies have been seen in the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea, covering several tens of thousands of square kilometres, amounting to millions of tons of methane, said Dr Gustafsson.

There, an international array of scientists has been investigating widening areas of open water that are disgorging millions of tons of methane each year.

Extrapolating their data to Siberia's other lakes, the researchers estimate that more than 4 million tons of methane is being released each year.

«Every ton of methane that escapes from our pipes and drilling wells plays an outsized role in warming our planet.

Each ton of methane has an impact on global warming about 200 times that of a ton of CO2 while it remains in the atmosphere, but methane remains for a relatively short time (12.4 years on average), whereas CO2 remains about ten times longer.

A 2011 survey of 41 Arctic researchers found that rapidly reducing human greenhouse emissions would limit the volume of carbon feedback from the Arctic to 10 % of the annual current human emission (or about 1 billion tons of carbon per year) by the end of the 21rst Century, but continue that emission for centuries to come (current Arctic carbon emissions are likely in the range of 30 million tons of methane and 100 million tons of CO2 each year).