In studying what's known as "flammable ice," researchers have discovered that microscopic bubbles within the strange material contain life. These findings could inform the quest to identify ...

The future of energy remains an interesting and open-ended question, and Japan, interestingly enough, may play a pivotal role in how that future shakes out. More than a decade ago, scientists in Japan ...

NBCNEWS.COM - Could you imagine turning on the faucet in your kitchen or bathroom, and the water ignites, in some cases, creating a fireball right in your house? Believe it or not, it can happen, ...

BEIJING, March 26 (Reuters) - China extracted 861,400 cubic metres of natural gas from methane hydrate, known as "flammable ice", during an one-month trial production in the South China Sea, state ...

Texas Railroad Commissioner David Porter blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday at a congressional hearing; specifically how the agency handled complaints by Parker County ...

(TNS) — The Sterling Heights Fire Department is set to become the first fire department in Michigan to be equipped with a handheld Remote Methane Leak Detector. Methane gas is a colorless, odorless ...

When you throw trash in the waste bin and then wheel it out to the curb, a truck usually comes once a week and hauls it away to a landfill. Then what? Maybe you've never thought to ask. Any organic ...

PARIS -- Saturn's largest moon apparently is lashed regularly by rain made of liquid methane, forming pools, cutting river beds and eroding rocks in much the same way that forces have shaped the Earth ...