Politicians used COVID as a test run to see how easily they could control society — and now they’re applying the same playbook to so-called “climate emergencies.” In this episode of The Climate ...

Cleaner air didn’t mean lower methane. New research shows how chemical shifts and La Niña rains pushed methane emissions to record levels.

In a paradox of air pollution, a decrease in man-made pollutants led to more methane in our atmosphere. And natural wetlands released more of the planet-warming gas at the same time ...

As the world shut down due to COVID, causing less traffic like trains, planes and automobiles, scientists expected the planet ...

Covid-19 lockdownshas unexpectedly caused a surge in methane, a potent greenhouse gas. This has happened because pollution reductions weakened the atmosphere's natural methane-clearing ability.

In an ironic twist, lower air pollution during Covid lockdowns fuelled an unprecedented surge in the powerful greenhouse gas methane in the early 2020s, a study said Thursday. "For me, this means we ...