How to Use methane in a Sentence
methane
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So, in the far north of the world, the soils store a lot of carbon, and there's methane underground.
— CBS News, 9 July 2023 -
The methane forms rivers, lakes, and small seas on Titan’s surface.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023 -
More than three-quarters of that methane came from stoves that were turned off.
— Lisa Song, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2023 -
But methane remains in the new law’s sights in other ways.
— Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 18 Aug. 2022 -
The ice has a quarter-size hole, maintained by a stream of methane bubbles.
— Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023 -
And methane emissions aren’t the only hazard that stem from the landfill.
— Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023 -
Two new reports have bad news on methane emissions in the U.S. and worldwide.
— Ben Geman, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024 -
The more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide and methane, the warmer our world gets.
— Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2023 -
That also means that the system does not produce as much methane.
— The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023 -
The outer belt is around twice the size of the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring of icy objects, mostly frozen methane and ammonia, around the Sun.
— Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 8 May 2023 -
The production of methane is a normal part of the digestive process that cannot (nor should it) be stopped.
— Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022 -
With the last option, methane is produced that can be captured and burned as a power source.
— Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022 -
Some might say methane emissions, which, by a factor of 28, are more potent than CO2.
— Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 -
Undersea blasts that damaged the Nord Stream I and 2 pipelines this week have led to huge methane leaks.
— Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2022 -
The city’s vast methane gas field extended to the spot near downtown chosen for a big school complex.
— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023 -
The point of the law is to remove organic waste from our landfills to reduce methane emissions and slow the need for new places to dump our waste.
— Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023 -
Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
— Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023 -
Left unplugged, many wells leak climate-warming methane, brine and toxins that were used in the drilling process.
— Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2023 -
Undersea blasts that damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines last week have led to huge methane leaks.
— Jill Lawless, ajc, 3 Oct. 2022 -
Most plastics are derived from crude oil, methane gas, or coal.
— By Aryn Baker/lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024 -
The methane and liquid oxygen will first flow into the smaller tanks on the ship, then into the larger tanks on the booster.
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024 -
Lebel and his team found that methane emissions from gas stoves in U.S. homes could have as much impact on the climate as half a million cars.
— Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2023 -
And the reservoirs behind them burp out large amounts of methane, a powerful heat-trapping gas.
— Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024 -
Wells and pipelines in the Permian Basin, a huge oilfield near the rocket site, are thought to give off some 2.7 million tons of methane a year.
— Zachary Mider, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023 -
It was fueled by a huge build up of methane from all those space babies’ diapers.
— Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024 -
But methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas in the short term, compared with carbon dioxide.
— Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024 -
Terran 1 burns a mix of methane and liquid oxygen to produce thrust.
— Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023 -
Cattle burps are a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
— Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023 -
What is more, livestock are the major source of methane emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide.
— David Carlin, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 -
In a win for climate, the justices left in place a federal rule requiring oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions from existing wells.
— Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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