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Science News November 18, 2006 Janet Raloff	Cow Power To improve the dire economics of dairying, some farmers are looking to generate commercial quantities of electric power.
Popular Mechanics November 2009	Methane Maps Step One for Energy Prospectors A recent discovery indicates there may be more of the gas being released and from deeper areas of the Arctic seabed than expected.
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009	The Greenhouse Gas Gap Companies and countries report their emissions but the disclosed amounts often don't add up to what's actually in the air.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US methane emissions reduction effort generates sparks The White House has set a new goal of cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40-45% by 2025.
Popular Mechanics October 2, 2008 Jennifer Bogo	Poop Power: U.S. Farms Save Big Turning Manure to Kilowatts An anaerobic biodigester is capable of turning manure into electricity, bedding, fertilizer and heating fuel -- saving hefty sums of money and preventing the emissions of an extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane, to boot.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2007 Toby Shute	It's a Dung Deal American Electric Power, the nation's largest CO2 emitter, is taking baby steps toward changing its dirty ways -- starting with cow manure.
Chemistry World December 14, 2015 Simon Hadlington	New camera makes methane visible Researchers in Sweden have developed a new camera that can visualize the flow of methane -- a key greenhouse gas -- as it emanates from its source.
Food Processing December 2009 Diane Toops	Cow Power and Innovation at Worldwide Food Expo 2009 Sustainability was one of the hot topics at Worldwide Food Expo, in Chicago.
Chemistry World August 20, 2008	Grasslands Emit Greenhouse Gas Chinese researchers have found further evidence that plants emit significant quantities of methane - a potent greenhouse gas. But the latest findings also show that methane emissions depend not just on the species of plant, but the conditions in which they are growing.
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Alan Bjerga	Farmers Anxious About USDA's New Policies Organic food, nutrition, and broadband programs are trumping farm payments under Agriculture Secretary Vilsack's initiatives
Chemistry World February 5, 2010 Leila Sattary	Emission reduction pledges pour in Dozens of countries, including the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, have met a 31 January deadline and submitted emission reduction targets to the United Nations in line with the Copenhagen Accord signed during the climate summit in December.
Wired May 22, 2007 Amy Cortese	Belching Bovines Are Bad for the Environment: How to Clear the Air Thanks to a ruminant stomach and a diet heavy in grass, a single heifer belches up to 300 pounds of methane a day
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 John Carey	Greenhouse Gases: Who's Cheating? The amounts of carbon in the atmosphere are out of whack with predictions and reported output.
Information Today October 27, 2015	Apple Commits to Using Clean Energy Apple created two programs, designed to reduce the carbon footprint of its Chinese manufacturing partners, which will avoid more than 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution until 2020.
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Wired May 19, 2008 Joanna Pearlstein	Surprise! Conventional Agriculture Can Be Easier on the Planet When it comes to greenhouse gases, organics can be part of the problem.
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Stuart Biggs	New Zealand Farmers Harvest Carbon Credits Growing trees can be more profitable than raising sheep.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Methane Budget to Become Off-Balance Methane packs a big punch in the atmosphere. A team of climate scientists now says that it has better determined the primary controls over the methane budget over the past two decades, and the team offers a warning for the future: methane emissions will likely rise.
Chemistry World October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century.
Chemistry World April 27, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Scientists Clash Over Methane Mystery The startling claim that trees could be responsible for putting millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year was published last year in the prestigious journal Nature. But that has now been rubbished by rival researchers who report that plants emit virtually no methane whatsoever.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	The Missing Methane Link Researchers working in Azerbaijan have quantified one of the missing methane emitters -- mud volcanoes.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Anders Bylund	Word of the Day: Sequestration GE and BP work together to stem global warming. These global giants certainly have the scale and resources to make it happen.
Chemistry World May 21, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Canada sets climate target The Canadian government has set a goal of reducing the nation's greenhouse gas emissions from the oil-and-gas, natural gas-fired electricity, chemicals and nitrogen fertilizer sectors.
Chemistry World May 24, 2011 Andrew Turley	Chemical industry fears over UK emissions plans Government plans to cut UK greenhouse gas emissions risk crippling the chemical sector and thereby harming chances of moving to a low emissions future
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Biofuel Carbon Debt May Take Centuries to Repay Most biofuels may increase greenhouse gas emissions because clearing grassland or forest to plant them releases carbon dioxide.
Wired September 22, 2008 Steve Rayner	Steve Rayner: Take Climate Change Seriously The outgoing administration failed to come to grips with climate change out of fear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would damage the economy.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2009 David Lee Smith	Emissions Friction Now's not the time to implement a costly plan.
Food Processing August 2010 Beau Griffey	Power Lunch: How the American Power Act May Affect You A cap-and-trade marketplace creates burdens, solutions and opportunities.
Investment Advisor October 2008 Robert F. Keane	Going Green With Garbage When many advisors and their clients get together these days, topic number one is energy. How it will affect the portfolio, and the planet.
Chemistry World November 29, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Plants Really do Make Methane Chinese chemists have confirmed the contentious finding that plants can emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 Thomas Duesterberg	The Competitive Edge -- Cap-and-Trade Would Be a Major Mistake U.S. manufacturers face significant cost disadvantages if current proposals are enacted.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko	Manufacturers Achieve Emissions Goals Here is a short list of the many goals and achievements reached by manufacturers in their voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide is a primary component of greenhouse gases.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2004 Rich Smith	Vitamin D Is for Deficit With a subsidy nearing expiration, dairy farmers may be culling their herds. That'll come as small consolation to the shareholders of the dairy companies, of course, unless they can find a way to pass their higher costs on to consumers
Scientific American November 2006	California, Here We Come In August the California legislature approved a bill calling for a 25% cut in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2020. But the federal courts may frustrate the states' efforts rather than furthering them.
Geotimes July 2007 Megan Sever	Affording the Costs of Climate Change Taking immediate action to try to mitigate climate change is not only necessary, it is affordable, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker	Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time
Food Processing October 2007 Dave Fusaro	Editor's Plate: Too green for my taste Choosing food based on a greenhouse gas score is a bad idea.
Chemistry World October 30, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Economist's Review Marks Turning Point Scientists have welcomed an economist's review into the costs of climate change, which warns of global recession if greenhouse gas emissions are not stabilized.
Chemistry World December 12, 2012 Yan Yan	China's emissions may peak as soon as 2025 New research suggests that China's carbon emissions could peak as soon as 2025. But not everyone is convinced by these projections.
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Emma Stoye	China's nitrous oxide emissions to triple by 2020 Emissions of nitrous oxide -- a potent greenhouse gas -- from China's chemical industries are increasing rapidly, and are set to triple by 2020 unless measures are put in place to stop them, new projections show.
Geotimes May 2005 Sara Pratt	Soot From Indian Cooking A new study says that residential cooking -- with stoves that burn wood, crop waste and dried animal manure -- is actually the largest source of soot emissions in India. Understanding this pollution source could have an important role in bettering both air quality and climate models.
Chemistry World January 23, 2008 Michael Gross	Turning Gas Into Fuel Cheaply Researchers in Japan have developed a fuel cell that can convert methane, the main component of natural gas, into methanol, a useful fuel, at moderate temperatures.
Wired May 19, 2008 Spencer Reiss	Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Food can be genetically altered to be more nitrogen-efficient and decrease the need for carbon based processes.
Wired February 25, 2008 Peter Schwartz	Humans Have Been Changing the Climate for Eons. That's Reason for Hope. Our epoch needs a new name. Scientists like Anthropocene to represent the era when people started messing up nature.
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Ben Elgin	Another Inconvenient Truth Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver.
Inc. May 1, 2010 Sarah Kessler	Can You Sell Anything? Entrepreneur Annie Haven is trying to build a fast-growing business built on dried cow manure.
Fast Company October 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda	The Future of Farming is in Nitrogen Efficiency A California biotech firm claims a gene that makes plants use nitrogen more efficiently can transform agriculture, make lots of money -- and slash greenhouse-gas emissions.
Wired May 19, 2008	Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green It's high time for green causes to unite around the urgent need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
Chemistry World September 13, 2012 Laura Howes	Sponges to mop up marine methane It may seem like the story from a children's cartoon, but Chinese scientist's claim that their sponge could suck up methane from the oceans, helping fight climate change and providing a new energy source at the same time.