A groundbreaking study published in the journal Science has shed new light on the significant role of U.S. landfills as ...
Garbage piling up in landfills isn’t just an eyesore, it’s also a climate nightmare, belching out large amounts of methane ...
Aerial monitoring of hundreds of landfills finds they emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously ...
Over half of U.S. landfills observed by aerial surveys are super-emitting sources of methane, according to a new study in the ...
The huge leaks of the potent greenhouse gas will doom climate targets, experts say, but stemming them would rapidly reduce global heating ...
The U.S. is emitting more methane from oil and gas production than previously thought -- and it's causing billions in ...
But it also is a potent greenhouse gas that escapes from oil wells and pipelines, and is also released by livestock and decaying organic matter in landfills. EDF plans to publicly post the data ...
Dubbed a "super pollutant" by the EPA ... paddy fields that are one of the major emitters of methane, Sherwin said. Another ...
PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A man died Tuesday after he was run over by machinery at a Pickens County landfill site.
"It will keep emitting for probably another 75 years before it returns to normal. So landfills don't just emit from the waste today, but they emit from the waste that we threw out decades ago." ...
A few weeks ago, we answered a question about how landfills that collect household trash avoid groundwater contamination. Turns out, readers want to know even more about landfills! Question ...
The majority of methane emissions around the world originate from landfills, agriculture and ... the experts said. Dubbed a "super pollutant" by the EPA that's responsible for about a third ...