At first glance, this frozen lake looks like it's full of neatly stacked UFOs hovering beneath the ice. What you're actually seeing is methane gas released by bacteria as they decompose organic matter ...
The image is surreal: a frozen lake, a scientist kneeling on the ice, and then a sheet of flame racing across the surface as ...
Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known as “will-o’-the-wisp,” “jack-o’-lantern,” “corpse candle” and “ignis fatuus” (“foolish fire ...
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can pack more than 25 times the global warming punch of carbon dioxide, and atmospheric methane emissions have been growing significantly since 2007. So it’s ...
While it was already known that Brussels ponds were sources of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, a scientific study by researchers from the University of Liège (ULiège) and the Free University of ...